Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1918 — IS VERY LARGE ONION CROP [ARTICLE]

IS VERY LARGE ONION CROP

Despite Much Smaller Acreage Than Last Year. J. R. Cavanaugh of the U. S; department of agriculture, was up from Lafayette Tuesday looking over the onion crop in Jasper county. According to his report the average yield of onions in Indiana this year is 400 bushels to the acre. This is sixty-four bushels larger than the yield of last year and means the crop will be only 100,000 bushels below that of 1917, in spite of the fact that the acreage this, season is only 3,000 against 4,350 last year. “The crop this year is well matured and there is a notable absence of ‘splits’ and ‘scullions’ in all the cars 1 have seen,” said Mr. Cavanaugh. “They are small in size but are dried and will store much better than the onions being sent in from other states.” Until Friday of last week, 486 cars oT onions had been moved in the state w’hich is .several times as large as the usual number started to market at such an early date. The onion crop started moving in Indiana this year about two weeks ahead of the usual date.