Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1916 — Onion Growing Is Expensive When It Turns Out Wrong. [ARTICLE]

Onion Growing Is Expensive When It Turns Out Wrong.

As before stated, the onion crop in Jasper county last fall was an almost total, failure on account of the high waters and the continued cold rains, but we had never before presented any figures to show how disastrous the failure was. William Whited was in .rorn near Newland and told of his experience on a farm belonging to Latham, Schafer & Collins, of Chicago, the latter the manufacturer of the well-advertised Coilins’ ice cream. Mr. Whiited put out 100 acres of onions and when the harvest time came in the fall he had just 44 bushels and 20 pounds, which he sold for 40 cents a bushel, which gave him a little less than SIB.OO for his summer’s toil and the great expense of tryirfg to grow an onion crop. B. Forsythe, wfho had a successful crop the year before also had an almost complete failure. He raised only 11 bushels and figures that the crop cost him about $l,lOO, or SIOO per bushel. Mr. Forsythe bought a good many onions for 40 and 50 ceuts to bushel and still has them. The price now is about $3.00 per hundred or about SI.BO per bushel. Undiscouraged by the failure of last year, which is not apt to be duplicated again, many are making the* early arrangements to plant a crop this year.