Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1899 — Onions Galore. [ARTICLE]

Onions Galore.

Mr. Albert Haim, who moved from northern Newton to Headquarters farm in Barkley tp.. last spring, was in the city Thursday and added his name to The Democrat’s numerous list of Valina readers. Mr. Hann has about ten acres of onions {mt out this sereson and says the crop in the Gifford district is generally looking well. Some idea of the onion industry of that district may be had when you consider the feet that 1,500 pounds of seed was planted this season, and about 4 pounds are used to the acre. Mr. Gifford intends to build two large storehouses—one at Comer and one at Gifford—it is said, of sufficient capacity to store 200,000 bushels o £ onions. A much better price can be obtained for them in the winter or early spring than in the fell, hence Mr. Gifford’s reasons for building warehouses. With a favorable season the Giffoidites will “have onions to bum.”