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GINSENG 



The proprietors are satisfied that their venture would have 

 been still more profitable had they consistently followed the policy 

 of producing dried roots for the export market, instead of deriv- 

 ing a large part of their income from the sale of seeds and young 

 planting stock. Their experiment, however, would not have been 

 quite so intensive under that plan, as it would have required a 

 larger area of land towards the close of the transaction. Their 

 present gardens cover an area of over five acres, and they are now 

 following the policy of producing dried roots for the export 

 market. 



A SMALL GARDEN. To the reader who is not financially able 

 to invest as much money as was invested in the business just des- 

 cribed, the following, — an account of a small garden conducted on 

 a farm as a side line, — may be of interest. 



In the fall of 1901 a farmer came to the writer for informa- 

 tion on ginseng culture- He expressed himself as being desirous 

 of starting a ginseng garden. "But" he added, "I have no money, 

 and besides I still owe on a mortgage against my forty-acre farm". 



