110 PRESENT STATUS OF THE INDUSTRY. 



Messrs. E. D. and M. S. Crosley, Tula, N. Y. : 

 "As to the expense of seed and plants, we paid during 

 the years 1897, 1899 and 1900, $44.50. The plants that 

 we bought were wild roots purchased at from eighty 

 cents to $i a pound. We have set only thrifty plants 

 and have dried and sold enough to pay more than the 

 whole cost. We dug what we could ourselves. So 

 our only expense for enough to set one-half acre at 

 Tula and 28,000 in Truxton was $44.50. 



"By carefully studying the analyses of the root, 

 and by experimenting to find the best way to apply fer- 

 tilizers from the start, we have found that it is possible 

 to produce eight-ounce roots in four years from small 

 wild roots. Cultivated roots grow more evenly and 

 produce a greater average of seed." 



Mr. B. L. Hart, Rose Hill, N. Y. : "We dug a 

 small portion of one of our beds of four-year-old roots 

 in October to note the weights of the roots, and the 

 largest of them weighed five ounces, green, while the 

 smallest weighed three ounces, making an average of 

 about four ounces to the root, green. Three pounds of 

 the cultivated roots, green, will make one pound of 

 the dry. 



"We raised in the neighborhood of 300,000 seed- 

 lings the past season and judged that ninety per cent 

 of the seeds we sowed in the fall of 1900 germinated 

 and produced plants. In this section the seed crop was 

 rather light, on account of so much unfavorable wet 

 weather, but our three-year-old plants made a yield of 

 about sixty seeds to the plant. 



"It is very true that there has been but a limited 

 amount of figures given of the yield and profits in 

 cultivating ginseng from actual shipments, and from 

 what we can see at present, it will be several years 

 before the enterprise will develop to this extent. Our 

 present gardens cover an area of one and one-quarter 

 acres, which is stocked with in the neighborhood of 



