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average wild roots will run about 50 or 60 to the pound, while the 

 cultivated are much larger. The cultivated roots do not show their 

 age as much as the wild roots. 



Mr. Harold Simmons : There is no trouble to distinguish be- 

 tween the wild and the cultivated ginseng. I have cultivated roots 

 that will weigh fourteen ounces, while the \v'ild root will not average 

 more than half an ounce. I have been in the business now nearly 

 nine years, and if only ten per cent of the ginseng grows we can still 

 cultivate it with profit. We have such an innumerable number of 

 people to cater to on the other side and the product does not increase 

 very rapidly. During that time the price has gone from $2.65 a 

 pound for the wild to $13 a pound for the cultivated root last season. 

 You hear some people speaking of its quality. Ginseng has no 

 quality ; the only quality is in the size of the root, the biggest roots 

 commanding the highest price. 



Mr. A. Brackett : I would like to ask Mr. Simmons whether he 

 has ever had any trouble with disease or whether he has ever heard 

 that ginseng is subject to disease? 



Mr. Simmons : Ginseng in its wild stace suffers from no disease, 

 but the mice will eat the seed. Under cultivation a number of diseases 

 develop, I forget the names of them, but a bulletin has been issued 

 by a professor of Cornell University on diseases of ginseng which 

 covers the ground very thoroughly. 



MY APPLE STORAGE HOUSE. 



J. A. HOWARD, HAMMOND. 



To successfully gather and market a large crop of apples a 

 storage house of some kind is necessary. The one I built in 1900 

 answers very well for a young bearing orchard of 1,500 trees. The 

 building is sixteen feet by thirty feet and ten feet high. It is 

 papered and sided and filled with sawdust, papered, stripped and 

 sided again on the inside, till there are two dead air spaces besides 

 the four inches of sawdust, and seven thicknesses of paper. The 

 ice box is at the end, raised fifteen inches above the floor. One- 

 fourth of the room is used for ice with a partition of galvanized 

 iron in three foot sections so that it forms circulation. It takes 

 about twenty loads of ice to hold it at about 40° from the time 

 the Duchess are put in till the nights are cool enough to do with- 

 out ice, about November first, when by keeping the door ope*^ 

 nights and closing it in the morning it keeps them cool enough. 



Apples hand picked from the trees and stored in crates, or piled 

 in small bins, will keep enough longer in a storage of that kind 

 to well pay for the time and trouble spent. 



Mr. Howard : It is just a farmer's storage plant, and I cannot 

 keep it as cold as a regular cold storage house, but I keep it at 



