Show Dale k Makes l Raising Onions O ons Dale Clark IS 18 son of banker A AL AL AL L and Mrs Irs Susie Duncan dark Clark of Farmington is in ut line for becoming secretary of agriculture if he can keep heep up the enviable record he has made this summer raising onions lie has just finished shipping 8 sacks making m thirty one car carloads carloads carloads loads bringing i 1 gross return of i anu an a net to oung dark of bout 9 The he is ill 11 the more startling because he raised the crop ClOp from ten acres cres of ground round scattered in n small plots bout about Farmington Farm Ington and because he raised them upon his Ius own initiative and without any outside help except that whIch he hired hued to harv harvest st his crop Ac According According cording to D strict Agricultural In InSpector II H P Mathews the shIp shIpment shipment ment is probably the largest sent bent ent by byan byan any an one grower rower in Utah I Dale Dales s folks are Ire not farmers they the thedo I do di not own a team o of horses the have haTe no farm arm machinery but the lad had spent his summers working In Inon inon inon on on fild fields and lc learned d some of the details detas of If onion omon raising r Even at that time sho showing mg the initiative that brought him successfully through i ithe the past season yung Clark gather gathel gathered ed a 1 group of boys boy together to ether and cor traded work pork ork on various arlOUS patches of onions for different f 1 mel wanted to Last sear ear he decided he try a small pitch for himself so he rented two and one half acres of ground and in m Jill W fall all cleared enough money to pay expenses buy seed nd ind to rent more land for his crop thIs summer Dasi Dael didn t take anyone any one into hIS confidence on the contrary his folks trl tried d to persuade him not to go goo m in qUIte so co 0 steep but he crt Wert ahead and rated rente ten acres Cles of the best land he could get although he found it necessary essary to take it in 1 five separate pieces lIe He had to h hp-c hp e his land and plow plowed plowed ed and und bought a second hand gaso gasoline gasoline line cultivator and seeder I t In one day he hads had is s high a as forty eIght I men and boys bon working for him AU All the work he lie supervised by hy himself except for the assistance of his young younger er brothel brother Louis lIe He kept strict ac account account count of all hI his epen expenses es and l had figured out just how much per sack I I It his s cost hun him to raise raie ral e hi hr onions He is 15 now attending school at the State University L this being his first year |