Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1910 — Indiana Banner Onion State. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Banner Onion State.

The state produced 1,041,638 bushels of onions in 1908, according to statistics compiled by the bureau of statistics. Northern Indiana was far in the lead in onion production and the banner county for this crop was Kosciusko, with an acreage of 1,004 and a k crop of 342,875 bushels. Another county running strong in the race was Noble, with 291,335 bushels; Whitley county produced 105,204 bushels; Dekalb county, 55,935 bushels; Elkhart county, 32,339 bushels; Stark county, 29,027 bushels and St. Joseph county, 23,645 bushels. These seven counties reported four-fifths of the crop of the state. The value of onions to the producers is given as an average of about forty cents a bushel. Our Classified Column does the work