The onion bookA practical guide to the profitable culture of the crop . ts should be pulled upand consumed by fire. It has been recommended to prepare the beds asearly in the sprmg as convenient, and suffer them toremain eight or ten days for the noxious plants tovegetate, then to cover them with straw to the depthof ten inches, and burn them over; aft^r which, plantthe seeds for the ensuing crop immediately. This pro-cess, it is stated, has proved perfectly succe^.r-ful indriving away the insects and insuring good crops, andin addition to this, has furnished a capital top-dressingto the soil.
The onion bookA practical guide to the profitable culture of the crop . ts should be pulled upand consumed by fire. It has been recommended to prepare the beds asearly in the sprmg as convenient, and suffer them toremain eight or ten days for the noxious plants tovegetate, then to cover them with straw to the depthof ten inches, and burn them over; aft^r which, plantthe seeds for the ensuing crop immediately. This pro-cess, it is stated, has proved perfectly succe^.r-ful indriving away the insects and insuring good crops, andin addition to this, has furnished a capital top-dressingto the soil. Onion-beds prepared from the hearthsupou which charcoal has been burned, have likewisebeen mentioned as producing the perfect vegetable,entirely free from the attacks of the fly. Should the charcoal method here mentioned, be uni-versally adopted, we have little doubt but that thisinsect depredator will in a short time become greatlyreduced in number if not entirely destroyed, and afforda much better chance for a mor* hsaithfol crop of theonion plants heritor. S. :*c^2^ ^^TOBACCO^
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