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Show Money In Onions Win M Hoy lance, the fruit shipper, also has great faith In Utah's ability In surpassing the rest of the world In its quality of vegetables. He hna about ten or fifteen acres of celery, west of town, which will soon bo ready for market, nnd as many more acres of onions, all of which will bo shipped away In car load lots Ho has l acres or onions on the Thomas Oleason farm on the Stato road, which ore Just now being harvested har-vested The six acres will yield over 1,500 sacks of 125 pounds each, nnd nre worth $1.23 per sack. This makes the six acre crop worth ?1,875. I!c-sldes I!c-sldes this Mr. Hoylance haB growing on the same farm, three acres of parsnips par-snips and a half acre of table beets, nnd on tho entlro tract ho has expended ex-pended up to date less than $fi00 for hired help, seed and rent of ground. The ground on which the onions were grown wns plowed deep lost fall. It was given a good coat of manure early this spring, nnd then double disked. It was harrowed several sev-eral times thoroughly, pulverized nnd leveled till the tract looked like a. garden. The seed was planted 20 to tho foot In rows 12 Inches apart, tho work being done with a hand drill. About half of the seeds came up, so that no hand thinning was necessary. The field was cultivated three times during tho summer with hand cultivators, culti-vators, six boys being kept In tho patch most of the time. Ac tho water is but two feet from tho surface, Ir. rlgatlon was needed but once, and then a furrow was made every tenth row, the balance being subbed. The experiment shows what can bo done with the lower lands of Pleasant Plea-sant Grove, If they arc UBcd for garden gar-den purposes for which thoy nre Ideally adapted. o |