Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-01-22 | Page 9 | Onions Profitable Crop in S.L. Valley

ONIONS PROFITABLE CEjOP IN S. L. VALLEY Commercial onion growing is rapidly being recognized as a profitable cron in the Salt Lake valley of Utah. W. X. Pack of Woods Cross, has demon st rated the prolific yields which may be secured by proper soil fertilization fertiliza-tion and civilization, together with intelligent in-telligent seed selection. A email field, consisting of one acre and 6lx rods measured ground yielded 132E bushels of the variety known as Gi braltars. The crop sold for ?1 75 per bushel, or a total gross cash revenue of $2,318.75 from the one acre, six rods. The Sweet Spanish onion, however is rapidly coming into popularity In tho truck growing districts between Salt Lake and Ogden, and. at recent meetings held throughout Davis county, coun-ty, arrangements were announced for the enlargement of this Industry into a carload lipnu-nt project for outside markets, partiruuarly to east and middle mid-dle west sections of the country Heretofore, truck growers have been dependent upon Salt Lake local markets. mar-kets. Another prominent grower in this lection Is E. E. Smith of Farmington, who has secured splendled yields of Sweet Spanish onions of superior size and texture, owing to careful seed selection se-lection .and proper cultural methods. At a meeting of growers and Union Pacific agriculturists, recently, Mr. Smith displayed a cratv of his Utah product and also a crate of similar variety imported from Spain. The comparison was favorable to the Utah product The Union Pacific agricultural de partment is co-operating w ith the Da vis county agricultural agent and the county farm bureau In fostering this project and it is estimated that with favorable conditions, there will be an output of SO carloads for the 1922 season sea-son in Davis county nlone. C. C. Gig-noux, Gig-noux, U. P Magazine