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Onion Culture
The Newest Way. —The following item was
recently published in the Evening Post, of Toledo, and I give it a place that my readers may judge for themselves whether they will continue to drill their rowa only about a foot apart and cultivate wholly by hand or drill at least two feet apart and use the horse hoes or cultivator, which will, of course, require more land to raise a certain amount of bushels. This must, or ought to, be governed by the amount of land one has, and also more particularly upon the amount of help which one has to aid in the hand part of the culture; for the thinning out the plants, as well as pulling the weeds within an inch or two of the row, must, in all cases, be done by hand. The writer says: " Onions will thrive in any soil, with proper fertilizers and good cultivation, yet they produce more profitably on old onion land, annually fertilized. Drilling in the seed and cultivating with horse power is a great improvement
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