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fore limited. I hear, too, that Chinese buyers dis- 

 criminate in favor of the wild root, paying a less 

 price for the cultivated product. Altogether it looks ^ 

 to me as if the market might easily be glutted — and 

 then what? If you want to make money, better let 

 fads alone and stick to the staple products that 

 everybody wants. For further information write to 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture and ask for 

 bulletins on the subject of ginseng growing. 



Herbs. — These are of three kinds — pot herbs for 

 flavoring, sweet herbs and medicinal herbs. It is a 

 great pity that herbs are now seldom raised in the 

 home garden. The use of 

 them in medicine is perhaps 

 not so great in these days 

 when a doctor can be readily 

 called, but in the old times no 

 housewife was without a 

 goodly show of them in the 

 yard, and she dried them 

 carefully for winter use. Nor 

 are herbs used nowadays so 

 much for flavoring in cook- 

 ing; and, when they are de- 

 sired, the pressed leaves are 

 bought at the druggist's. The home-grown article is 

 far better than money can buy. A hom.e with even 

 .a small strip of land can find place for some of these 

 plants which are so valuable. 



Herbs delight in a rich, mellow soil. Put them 

 in a corner by themselves where they will not inter- 

 fere with plowing, etc. When once started, little if 

 any cultivation is needed except to keep out weeds. 

 Sow seeds early in spring in shallow drills about 

 Iwo feet apart ; when up a few inches thin out to 



PUTTING AWAY HERBS FOR 

 WINTER USE 



