Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1915 — Onion Market Will Be Good. [ARTICLE]

Onion Market Will Be Good.

AU indications point to a good price for cn : ons this fall, due in the main, to a short crop. Conditions have been unusually bad for the entire crop over the entire belt this year. High winds, floods, excessive moisture and cool weather have reduced the crop to probably one-hal for less. The Starke county onion crop has come out of the turmoil of the unusual year, so far, even better than that of her neighbors. The big Scioto marsh in Ohio lost about 2,000 acres early in the year on accoutn of high winds. The Newland marsh lost 1,000 acres (because of flood conditions. Up to two weeks ago the Starke county crop was 100 per cent perfect with a large acreage. The excessive rainfall, the blistering hot, then the shivering cold weather wrought much damage. An onion will stand a lot of abuse and still be an onion. Buyers are becoming anxious, and this is regarded as a good sign by the growers. When an onion buyer walks the streets with a ten cent sigar stuck in his face at an angle of 45 degrees and can’t tell an onion field from a watermelon patch, it is a pretty sure sign that some growers "will sell their product at 20 cents a bushel before the season ends, but when the onion-hungry purchasers limit their smokes to a Missouir meerchaum, haunt the highways with an appealing look in their eyes and climb on top of a six wire fence to say ‘‘good morning” to a man over in the other forty it may be regarded as an almost infallible sign that somebody is going to sell out his onion crop around one dollar a bushel. Unless crop reports are sadly at fault the man with some good onions to sell should be able to exchange them for the coin of the realm at about a dollar per.