| Show W S HANSENS ONION SUCCESS the placing of utah onions on the market by august Is a feat eat just accomplished complis hed by W S hansen the successful farmer fanner of collingston collinston Colllns Col linston ton mr air hansen following experiments made at the agricultural college has just marketed pounds of very fine onions and these the brigham city merchants took up at T 2 cents a pound considering the fact that california lias has ever supplied the utah market with summer onions and that mr hansen is the first utah man to discover that thai this california influx can be with this feat of his is worthy of particular note the pounds of onions were harvested from but a few rows and it is estimated that an acre aate yield would lave shown SOO bushels or about 4 1 pounds such a yield at the market price of two cents a pound would mean an income of from an acre of onions at the august price of a year ago one cent a pound an acre yield would mean mr hansen Is enthusiastic over the result of his experiment and proposes to have several acres of fine onions ready for the august market in 1907 at the present time lie he has about five acres for the tall fall market in speaking of the method used in getting onions this early mr hansen said that he planted early in the spring and instead of using seed planted plan ted the small onions cullings from last laft years crop this method brought forth good onions of large size fit tor for market mr hansen Is confident that the farmers ot of utah can supply the early market for onions and he proposes to go into the bustness business extensively samples ot of the onions shown in logan monday by wll lard hansen of this city wore were indeed very fine Colllns Collins tons big farmer is not only successful in onions this year but has thirty acres of beets that he Is certain will bring forth thirty tons to the acre last lear this land produced twenty tons and the beets this year a are re much finer in his wheat field mr hansen has such a crop that it Is necessary tollace to have two extra men on the header tho his is dry farm land his wheat yield will not be less than forty bushels per acre it is a well known tact that W S hansen has about the finest farm anil and best sheep on the other side of the mountains and it is certain that few farmers have such a magnificent residence as is his in speaking 0 of f what has contributed most to his jenera general I 1 success mr hansen gives the agri cultural college of utah great credit ile he sais that he is a careful reader of every bulletin that comes from the station and in his farill farming ng he has followed the instructions given therein lie he is one who believes in the work of the ollege college and feels that every farmer in the state should be friendly to that institution logan republican |
