. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. 78 BIGGLE GARDEN BOOK and then they are piled np and are ready for the "; The toppers cut the roots and stalks off and place the onions in baskets and sacks, ready for the market. All of the onions are not dug, however; the grower allows an acre or two to keep on growing till the stalks are four or five feet high. On the very top large seed-balls grow, and when ripe they are cut from the onion—which some growers allow to remain in the ground until the next year,
. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. 78 BIGGLE GARDEN BOOK and then they are piled np and are ready for the "; The toppers cut the roots and stalks off and place the onions in baskets and sacks, ready for the market. All of the onions are not dug, however; the grower allows an acre or two to keep on growing till the stalks are four or five feet high. On the very top large seed-balls grow, and when ripe they are cut from the onion—which some growers allow to remain in the ground until the next year, thus get- ting a double crop of seed from each onion. Good ground will yield about 400 pounds of seed to an acre and 300 or more bushels of big onions for market. Marketing.—In regard to "bunch" or early green onions, an Illinois grower writes: Don't begin on the onions till they are large enough so that not more than five or six are required to make a bunch. See to it that the bunches are uniform in size, and that the onions are clean and bright (see picture). It is very hard to fore- cast the onion market. Some seasons the early market is the best; at other times the best prices are obtained later. Styles of shipping crates vary in different localities. Here we use a flat crate holding ten dozen bunches; it has a division through the center. The onions, after they are bunched and tied, are cut in lengths about an inch shorter than the space between the ends of the crate and the division board. In packing, the bunches are placed lengthwise of the crate. By placing the butts of the. iUNCHING. HAVE BUNCHES UNIFORM IN SIZE AND ONIONS CLEAN. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia, W. Atkinson Co. , 1912
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