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An Acre in Onions. 5
Many growers employ a hand-rake for fining the soil before the seed is sown. About 4 lbs. of seed are required for an acre. It should be the product of the previous season. [I would never use old seed. ] The seed may be tested by counting out a certain number and placing them on some moist cotton laid in a saucer. If good, it will germinate in 3 or 4 days. The seed should be sown as early in the spring as it is possible to prepare the land. Growers who dim to get the largest yield from a given amount of land allow only the space of a foot between the rows. There is a drill which plants two rows of onion seed at once. If sown by hand one seed should be dropped every inch. In order to mark the rows it is well to drop a radish seed every 5 or 6 inches [merely to point out the row so you can cultivate varieties]. The radishes will grow very rapidly, and will be large enough to pull before the onions attain sufficient size to be injured by their presence. If there is no market for radishes in the vicinity, cabbage plants may be raised in their place.
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