New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-01
POW ERFUL ONIONS
Will Send the Girl Who Raises
Them to College.

| "r-or, one busheI of seed last year
raised 122 bushels Of marhetaoie
The sneaker was a young schooI si'' "
small town in Massachusetts
1.-The land belonged 10 the ralroau' 60
| az 7 didn't have to pay rent tnat helpe -
| considerably. My father works on 'he "a,
uoad ord because this little slip OF ldI'4
rs MAR or house and went year altel
year without anybody paying any a1' eli -
=. .. T asked him to get me PERMISSION 10
r1a,+ q in onions. You see. father plants
onio,s as a sort of side line. and al"aJ ,
LIES hundred or so dollars on them IL
ras from helping in his onion neld thd'
learned how. az. tr,
.I had sO of nv own that / had rnao7 III
various ways, so when he got Wolu tia1 no
might plant the railroad lana Oouen1
bushel of seeds and hired man 10 oleol
I'M the land and plant them AI'er tIii9
worked with my hoe, or rather La
hoe every afternoon on getting nome tlO.I
school. By working hard L manaseu -
keep ahead of the weeds untl aione -
INV Then. although 1 was working carry
- ,ate oT,r school having closed for the
=rronner. there were so many weeds anu
-. rro,,rd eot so hard that I was forced
N hire the man again to run cultIValor
through the rows .-,-
a.ftar this 7 hired both boys and snlS
.s,era1 DAVIS to help me pull weeds IL
tor, us busv. and by the end of the sum
- mean after the onions were gain
- +b.rs was less than 50 of the original
.1o left fl had had TO buy crates or bags
4, .zbich TO ship my crop ] would not nave
cleared any more on my crop than Iatil7.
Aid On his. but because my onions aVeraSeu
= size or SO larger, being planted on sIroIie-
er land. I got the same price for thern tiI''
ba did. and the buyer hauled them rom
the field After all expenses we're deoucl0u
found that 7 had made just 800 ~
..I rlanted the white Silver King because
49, +.+b.r had found that 1t sold better
+hs, anv other variety in our rnarket.
IT. H., thinks ~ better suited 70 the lana
-. tbs rod varieties. AS the land was
,a-f..,1v, Trash. never having been planteo
since we moved TO our place ten years
ago used no manure NV faIher says
the same land will produce better oiiioil7
this YEAR. but It has required some ma
rure He also SAYS the weeds VIII hct DC
SO troublesome as last year
ct have put the money IN the oahA anu
+btz snring I am drawing on the so for
nv next crop. The railroad people nave
told nv father that he can use the land
so am making hay while the sun SHINES
Fv the time I get through the high school
hope 10 have money enough to pay nv
vsv through college Several Of the bows
ard girls who worked for me last sum
ner. helping me pull weeds, are starting
gardens for themselves Because Of this
nv teacher says my onion patch has
heIued the community, and during the
winter she tried to help US by giving us
lessons on gardening.
mo. I am not trying 10 make my patcn
for this wear any larger. The piece Of land
and that one bushel OF seed gave me all
I could take care OF. II the boys and girls
vho helped me go In for themselves "
NAV be a little harder for me to get
weed pullers in August, though from the
interest the children in school are taking
in gardening now it looks as il they might
b willing 70 work without pay.
1.-THE gathering was not hard. When the
onions began TO die down at the tops /
rolled them over with barrel containing
a few heavy pieces OF iron. the same bar
rel that my father uses in his field 1t
was at the beginning Of a dry spell and
few days later the tops were all dead
enough for me TO dig the onions. I dug
them with a hoe and without assistance.
I then let them lie in the rows for couple