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expensive under the old method, especially when one has to set 

 out plants into the millions, but we have been able by our method 

 to cut down this expense to about 20 per cent of the original 

 cost under the old method of using the dibble. One man with the 

 tool that we use can transplant in one day from 10,000 to 12,000 

 plants and do it easily, besides doing it better. 



The plants, when they are ready to be dug for market, can 

 also be dug at a great deal less expense when planted under our 

 method. 



We are, at the present time, drying about four tons of trans- 

 planted roots. These plants were from ten to twelve years old. 



Ginseng growing in the natural shade — at F. C. Erkel's. Rockford, Minn. 



We also harvested our first crop of wild roots from our timber 

 tract this fall, about 800 pounds green. We have found it no 

 small task and expense to clean so large a quantity of roots, 

 especially where they are grown in our soil, which is quite heavy, 

 and for this reason do not clean readily. 



For washing the roots, the best we have found is an old 

 style barrel churn. In using the churn however, one should be 

 careful to fill the churn good and full with roots, but only about 

 half full of water. In this way the roots will not be bruised in 

 the least, from the fact that they are allowed to move around, 

 but rather the water works through the roots with the motion 

 of the churn. 



We have also found it necessary to use a power sprayer in 

 spraying our arbors. Our power sprayer is a machine assem- 

 bled by us. I might also mention that we use nothing but Pyrox 

 in spraying our plants. 



