Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXIII, Number 37, 11 January 1939 — Spanish War Aids Onion Growing In Puerto Rico [ARTICLE]

Spanish War Aids Onion Growing In Puerto Rico

The eivll war in Spain has blast- • t! t īj\vav for the development of oniou raising as an iuiportant elemēnt in the ei-op diversifieatioīi proirr;»m īn Pnerto Hieo. Miles H. Pairi>aiik 5 Assistant Adrainistrator of the i*uerto Rieo Reeonstruetion Adniinistratiou, totUiy advised Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. Providing this essential ltem In Puerto Hiean rīiet at a <lieaper eost. and affording a new agricultuml fndustr.v for the Island, the proL'rani for onion eulture was put Into eOWt wlieii the import of oaions froni Spaiu was curtailed by the