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Onions, How Many Can be Raised to the Acre.
This question being often asked, should be judiciously answered, lest some person may be led into the business too extensively for his knowledge of how it must be done, as the Ohio Farmer speaks of, from a report that D. M. Ferry, of Detroit, Mich., grew 600 bushels of onions on an acre, and for which he was offered $3. 50 a bushel, or $1, 500 from an acre; and this, says the Farmer, led a farmer who heard of it, and knew no more of onion growing than he did of Sanskrit, to plant 5 acres of common corn land in onions, the next season, the seed costing him $100. He didn't grow a bushel of marketable onions. Had he studied up the subject and planted the first season 1. 8 or 1/4 of an acre, he might now be a successful onion grower, whereas he indulges in profanity at the smell of an onion.
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