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Onion Raising, Value of Wood Ashes as a Manure for.
A writer in one of the agricultural papers upon this subject says: Farmers who-are so fortunate as to have an open fire-place, should place, as an offset to the cost of the wood, the value of the ashes produced. For onions there is no fertilizer equal to wood ashes, as they require a great deal of potash. Market gardeners and others who make a specialty of growing onions will understand that to succeed with the crop they need larger supplies of potash than they will ordinarily receive from barn-yard manures.
Remarks. —I am unable to see why ashes from a stove are not better than from an open fire-place, as above named, as those from a stove are certainly more thoroughly burned, and hence must be stronger and better. Although wood ashes are undoubtedly an excellent manure for onions, yet well rotted stable manure must be the principal dependence, except with those who have plenty of hog manure, which has long been considered the best, but chiefly, no doubt, because it is more free from weed, and grass seeds, than stable manure; yet, where much corn and corn meal are fed to hogs, their manure is more than ordinarily rich. The following is a summing up of the whole matter of raising onions.
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