The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-05-07
HIS ONIONS.
How Q New Beginner Raised His
First Crop.
The Experience OF . Marshall
Cashier

How nice II Is 10 have . gsrlrn, an,
grow your own vegetables!
When young man gets married, tn
first year he is generally afflicted with a,
insane desire to raise everything he po--i
bly, can, but Eve years afierward, he ha
70 scratch around pretty lively to raise III,
the rent. And then sometimes he don'i re-
but half a crop.
Esrly last spring newly married couple
in Marshall began keeping house. No~
the happy husband was . c,-hier in =
bank And as he looked out of the back
window over the garden. he determin-i 70
raise his own vegetables. Visions Of enor.
mo:,s onions. the size Of a steamboat bell
cabbage~ ~ large ~ a sugar h"s.head,
1oaicd through his mind, and . stern de-.
termination To take every premium At she
mex, fair fired his brain and nerved his
heart.
Tue. he knew nothing Of raising vcye-
tables, bnt the man Who could detect =
raised draft need not he afraid to UNDER
take raising anything else, from . prize
squash To a four story house.
After carefully reading Colman's Rsui
World and the U. s. Agricultural Reports.
he went to work in March and had his
ground broken up, duly raked and pulver-
lied. So far, 80 good. Right here the
idea struck him that il is necessary 70 GOV
before respinx. 10 he started out q pro
cure seed. Of vegetable. his weakness
leaned to onions, and nov he vas married.
thank heaven, he could eat ~ IN ,ny - he
wanted.
Yer, sir, he'd have . whole acre Of
'em.
Going around to his more experienced
friend-. he inquired j. they had = little
onion seed they could spare.
Oh. yes, they had lots Of il. saved from
last year-Silver Skins, Iowa Red, Nam.
moth Red, etc.
From each he procured literally, and BY
the time he had concluied his rounds he
had enough onion seed for the whole county
If Saline.
Then he planted it.
Whole beds Of it.
And every available little nook or cor.
ner he would gil up the chinks with onion
seed.
His friends commended his energy, and
encouraged his efforts, and after he had il all
planted, they assured him that he had moth
ing else to do. that his onions would grow
while he slept.
Which delighted him with assurance
sweet.
1t was touching 70 behold his faith in
Providence-and onions-vhen he started
out at sunrise every morning to watch for
the first appearance Of the Tiny green shoots
above the ground.
At last they appeared, and like . hen
cackIing over her first egg. his joy knew no
bounds. Every friend vas brought in to
see his onions that he had planted.
After /. few days what added to the !
pleasure Of his heart vas the fact that e och !
seed hal taken root-every one Of EN- had
come Up.
As the day. p,s-e,i, it was vonderiul !
how those onions did grow! 1t was no, ;
long before they were foot high and his
admiration wss nine feet higher.
Still they grew.
One day he bes,n to mediate. The-e
onions grew too East.
Then the idea struck him that the leaves
we're getting too broai for onions.
Doub: and pcrplexity began to fill hi.
mind.
His garden had more the appearance of
a young orchard than an onion bed.
One day he haiiel an old farmer to CO ne
and look at his onions.
The old man got slo~ly out Of his wagon.
peered long and earnestly oser the top rail
If the fence. ani as the FIRST look Of aston
-hment gave way to brad grin, he said
That ar yingun patch Of yourn il bout
lhe ,hickest and healthie-t crap Of jim-en
weeds I've seen this year, Cap"
The Cashiers Jaw fell at least Eve per
'ent-, and he is nov bu-ily hunting for the
ellows who gave him that .nioa iced With
/ double bsrreled shot gun.