Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-16
ONIONS IN NEW ENGLAND.
By George Frink.

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 The greatest drag on New England is the New England indisposition to think well of itself-the old New Eng 1anders mean, who have been bred to believe that the section is about the most unpromising on the face of the earth They cannot seem to become reconciled to the idea of real prosper fty. They are hanging onto the few dollars their grandfathers left for their fathers, and their fathers did not spend.
 Your genuine old-time New Eng lander grew prosperous, such pros perity as 1t was. through not spending rather than through earning and saw ing. Real saving is putting aside some portion of one's earnings. Accumulat- ing through not spending Is different, and has a different effect upon people. It is keeping money that by rights ought to be paid to others for khe com- forts and decencieS of life.
 A peach farm was not yielding what 1t should and when about discouraged the owner called na soil expert from the Massachusetts state college at Am herst-
 The professor arrived at the peach farm got his good dinner, and went out to view the peach land OCT. He looked about. tapped some of the rocks with his little hammer (there were but very few stones within reach) and took up a handful of the soil, letting it slip through his fingers slowly, and rubbing 1t between his thumb and palm as 1t went. This he did in several sections of the orchard. and then said to the farmer, abruptly:
 'tSiIt. loamy silt: or si1ty 1oam, as you like. Just what I expected to find. Just what I knew was here. I did not dare to tell you in Amherst, for knew you were one of the New England Doubling Thomases. You would not have believed me-there. Now. you get busy and pull up these peach trees and put this land into onionsi"
 The farmers mouth hung open. He stared. He gasped and swallowed. up those fine younglp peach trees! They have not yet given. a crop. They are just ready to bear. They have cost me a heap of money. Pull 'em up? You must be crazy
 '@But you must pull them up. They will never bear paying crops. You see, this 1and>is ideal onion land. It is just that peculiar composition of silt and foam that onions require. Why, if you put in onions here" And then fol- lowed a keen lecture on onion culture, and finally the professor betook him. self again to Amherst, almost per suaded that the peach man would cling to his peaches But he did not altogether. He took his courage in his hands and pulled up about quarter of the peach trees, and planted onions. have forgotten just how many acres there was in this first years onion patch, but the c. m. said he paid the peach man q. 500 for the crop the first year; and that an of the peach trees were pulled up the snext year.
 There are hundreds of acres of the best kind of onion land in different parts of New England upon which anywhere from 100 to 800 bushels per acre can be raised. depending some upon the land but more upon the man. They can be sold for about 50 cents a bushel. I have heard of crops as large as 1000 bushels to the acre, which would mean $500 an acne. The soil should be three-EouFths silt, and the other fourth chiefly a good black loam There should be g. little sand, and if there is clay underiaying 50 much the