1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
EVERYBODY’S GARDEN. 
Houskradisii. —With favorable soil 
and accessible markets there is no ques¬ 
tion as to the profits in growing horse¬ 
radish. The Fall being the most favor¬ 
able time to secure the roots for next 
season’s planting, it is now a timely 
subject to discuss. It is well, however, 
before undertaking the work, carefully 
to consider the above points, as, lacking 
either favorable soil conditions or ac¬ 
cessible markets, the results will prove 
disappointing. The principal markets 
are, of course, the cities or large pick¬ 
ling factories, but thousands of bushels 
are annually shipped for long distances, 
and there is no valid reason why it may 
not be grown in any locality where po¬ 
tatoes are grown. Growing on a large 
scale would be somewhat expensive for 
the first year, as the roots or settings 
would require quite an outlay. After 
that, however, no outlay is necessary, as 
the small ends of the roots and the 
lateral shoots will keep up the root sup¬ 
ply for the next season’s crop. It is well 
to bear in mind that no time need be 
wasted upon the ordinary wild product 
growing in the fence corners or gardens, 
as it will not produce a salable article, 
and once started, is almost impossible 
to get rid of. The cultivated roots or 
sets can be obtained from most of the 
seedsmen, but consult only those of 
known reliability, as worthless stock 
would mean heavy losses. The ideal 
soil is a deep clay loam, and very rich, 
other soils, provided they are deep 
enough, may be sufficiently enriched to 
grow a good crop. Do not attempt to 
grow it on a poor thin soil, as the 
ground must be rich enough to produce 
a large root growth in one season. The 
cultivation is very simple, but requires 
the ground to be plowed very deeply 
and thoroughly fitted. When ready for 
setting, which ordinarily should be 
early in May, the ground is marked off 
in rows three feet apart, the roots to be 
set two feet apart in the rows. The 
holes are made with a long dibber or 
crowbar eight or ten inches in depth, 
but always sufficiently deep to admit the 
entire root. A set is dropped in each 
hole and the soil pressed around it. The 
shoots will soon appear above ground, 
and after that all the care necessary is 
to keep the ground free from weeds. As 
the principal root growth is made late 
in the season, many growers plant the 
horseradish between rows of early peas, 
beans or sweet corn, thus securing two 
crops in the one season. Other growers 
sort the sets, planting the larger ones 
by themselves Lo secure an early crop. 
From $2 to $3 per bushel is often ob¬ 
tained for large roots during the pick¬ 
ling season. The main crop should be 
left in the ground as late as possible, 
but should be lifted before heavy or con¬ 
tinued freezing sets in. The roots may 
be stored in pits or in sand in a root 
cellar, so that they are available at any 
time. A conservative estimate as to 
yield would be 80 bushels or upward 
per acre, and as good stock seldom com¬ 
mands less than $1.25 per bushel in this 
market at least, it will be seen that the 
profits are good. These suggestions are 
ihrowu out as a basis for a profitable 
side line for many farmers and garden¬ 
ers whose surroundings are favorable 
for the work. 
Billion Dollar Gr..lss. —I tried it last 
Spring, but somehow the grass failed to 
materialize owing, I think, to defective 
seed. I needed it for soiling purposes, 
and the seed was put in under ideal con¬ 
ditions. The weather was as if made to 
order, and I reasonably hoped for satis¬ 
factory returns; but I waited patiently 
until the “pusley” and round-top was a 
foot high and too thick for a mouse to 
crawl through. The growth of weeds 
was plowed under, but fearing the ex¬ 
cessive heat would cause too much fer¬ 
mentation I topdressed with lime at the 
rate of 3,000 pounds to the acre. 1 de¬ 
cided to plant out late celery, but being 
disappointed in the plants, I next turned 
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to late cabbage. It was July 18 before I 
had the ground fitted as I desired, and 
the weather was very hot and dry. The 
neighbors said it would be useless to set 
out the plants until it rained, and the 
ground did look like an ash neap on the 
surface, but I knew that beauty was only 
skin deep, for below it was moist. I 
planted out the cabbage in the evening 
and my wife followed with the shears, 
clipping off all the leaves, leaving only 
the head formations. Next morning 
they were watered and left to their fate, 
but less than two per cent of them died. 
Now it was later than I would advise 
setting cabbage ordinarily, but rich 
ground and thorough culture both before 
and after setting brought the crop along 
nicely although the rain held off for 
days. In August one-half of the ground 
was entirely covered with manure, and 
the results in yield were greatly in favor 
of the mulching theory. The Cabbage 
worms were very destructive at one 
time, but an application of fine salt and 
wood ashes in the proportion of one to 
three in the order named, settled the 
matter once for all. All in all, this is 
me most effectual remedy I have ever 
used. The late Fall was favorable and 
a fair crop was secured, but generally 
speaking, such late planting is not safe. 
Although the grass was a failure, it was 
by no means a hopeless discouragement, 
but next year, with better seed, I hope 
for better results. 
Rhuharr Root.s. —As predicted by the 
writer several years ago, rhubarb roots 
for forcing would, at no distant day, be 
in demand, and the growing of roots to 
meet that demand would assume no 
mean proportions. As proof of this, or¬ 
ders come to this section every few days 
from nearly all parts of the country 
only to be refused as the home demand 
is far ahead of the supply. The grower 
who is so fortunate as to have the roots 
would find ready market for them pro¬ 
vided he cared to sell, but he, wisely, 
prefers to force them. A nearby garden¬ 
er, going out of business, recently sold 
at auction 21,000 roots at prices ranging 
from $7.75 to $9 per 100, as they stood 
in the ground. This number of roots 
can easily be grown on one acre, so it 
will be readily seen that the crop is 
highly profitable, even if no use were 
made of the Spring crops of leaf stalks. 
We are not advising a wholesale rush 
into this new enterprise, but neverthe¬ 
less it seems reasonably certain that the 
demand will come, and for those favor¬ 
ably situated, the way is open into a 
profitable field of labor. .t. k. mor,sk. 
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WE LEAVE IT TO THE READER TO SAY 
“WHO JUGGLES,” 
AND 
Who “Bobs Up With One Lie After Another.” 
It is characteristic with that class of 
people to lose their tempers and call names 
because they have no good arguments and 
must depend on bluffing. I 
Our ’’would-be competitors” are squirm¬ 
ing terribly because the United States beat 
the DeLaval in the Model Dairy at the Pan- 
American, and are resorting to all sorts of 
SChomes fu break the force of the victory 
of the United States over the Del.aval 
Separator. 
They say we put out “what purports to 
be a skimmilk record of the work done by 
the ’U. S.’ machines in the Model Dairy.” 
We gave tlie exact statement signed by the 
Superintendent of the Model Dairy, namely: 
Average test of the U. S.— .0(38i 
They published a statement also signed 
by the Superintendent of the Model Dairy 
showing average of .0161. The Superintend¬ 
ent afterwards found he had made an error, 
and stated over his own signature the cor¬ 
rect average for the DeLaval was .0172; 
but these “would-be competitors ’ do not 
correct the error, but continue to advertise 
the Hgures which tney know to be wrong. 
The DeTjaval Co. published their second 
period of running, which was in the best 
seasoti of the year, from August 9th to Sep¬ 
tember 2Sth inclusive. We published our 
second period from September 29th to 
October 30tli inclusive. All experienced 
dairymen know that the U. S. had the 
hardest milk to separate, as the cows were 
longer in milk, giving less quanlity, and 
ccld weather coming on; yet, with all these 
conditions against tlie U. S., it excelled the 
DeLaval, as the Superintendent’s reports 
sliow. (it also beat the DeLaval in the first 
period, after adjustment.) 
'I’he DeLaval statement reads “Tests were 
from August 9th to September 28th,” but 
the record books of the Model Dairy show 
no record was made until the 11th of Au¬ 
gust. This gives them two days to adjust 
the machine under the friendly expert oper¬ 
ators before any tests were recorded. 
Our statement includes the lirst run of 
our machine witii no time allowed for ad¬ 
justment. 
The records after adjustment of the first 
period show that the United States beat 
the Del^aval on these runs also. 
The DeLaval Co., being aware they were 
beaten in the first period, sent their ma¬ 
chine back to the factory to be fixed over 
and improved, if possible, for a second trial. 
Tlieir machine was one made special for 
that work. The U. S. was taken from regu¬ 
lar stock and was returned to its booth 
after the iirst run and remained there until 
we were reeiuested by telegraph from the 
Superintendent of the Model Dairy to put 
in the U. S. to make a second run. We 
wondered wliy the necessity for telegraph¬ 
ing such a request, but telegraphed back 
\Ce would comply with the request. We 
learned later that the DeLaval was shak¬ 
ing so badly that it was not deemed safe 
to run it longer, therefore the necessity for 
arranging by telegraph to replace it with 
the U. S. 
The DeLaval Separator is a top-heavy 
machine filled with 40 to 50 metal discs, and 
when they get out of balance, cause trouble 
if continued in use. 'therefore the neces¬ 
sity for immediate change when it begins 
to shake. 'They claim io run on plow 
speed, hut always, when in competition 
with the U. S., attempt to run at very high 
speed—sometimes moi’e than 50 per cent 
higher than they advertise to run. 'They 
know that their separator cannot run at 
high speed long, so run it at high speed 
only in tests with the U. S. 
The U. S. is made more substantially, and 
does stand high speed, and runs longer and 
easier at its speed than the DeLaval docs 
at its claimed lower speed. 
The DeLaval Co. advertise a “voluntary” 
(?) statement purporting to be from the 
engineer of the Model Dairy in which he 
says “it took but one-fourth as much steam 
to do our work with it (Del.aval) as the 
’United States’ used.” Such a statement Is 
so ridiculous on its face that no e.xperi- 
enced dairymen would doubt that it was 
vohmtary on the part of the DeLaval Co. 
We have hundreds of statements from 
dairymen, who have used both separators, 
that the U. S. runs easier than the DeLaval, 
and wears much better. 
The truth is that Engineer Downy was 
never present when the U. S. was running, 
with one or two exceptions, when his De¬ 
partment was unable to get sufficient steam 
to run so much as a Babcock Tester until 
very late in the forenoon. 'The work in the 
Model Dairy was done before he got around 
in the morning. 
Now read what Mr. Van Alstyne, Super¬ 
intendent of the Model Dairy, over his own 
signature, says in reference to power in 
September when the DeLaval was running: 
“We found the power insufficient, 
and were obliged to put a cut-off 
in the pipe leading upstairs to pre¬ 
vent the herdsmen drawing on our 
steam at times when we needed it 
for the dairy work, and us the 
weather became colder the latter 
part of September, this trouble in¬ 
creased to such an extent that one 
day, with both burners lighted, we 
found our steam entirely out, so 
that wc iulen'led tnaking a change be¬ 
fore your mnchine was put in, and we 
were delayed a week in order to get 
the consent of the proper authori¬ 
ties. We then used soft coal, which 
did not give satisfaction, because 
it filled up the flues of the boiler, 
and we changed to coke, which has 
been eminently satisfacaory.” 
Remember this was when the DeLaval 
Separator was running and before the U. 
S. was put in. 'They could not get steam 
enough to run the DeLaval. 
This “voluntary” (?) statement says fur¬ 
ther ’’that the ’U. S.’ had an expert to run 
it.” He was in no sense an expert, had 
never worked in a creamery or dairy or at¬ 
tended a Dairy School or Experiment Sta¬ 
tion. Tlie DeLaval did have experts to run 
theirs. Both operators were graduates and 
rank partisans of the DeLaval. and were 
angry because we objected to having un¬ 
fair and prejudiced operators run the U. S. 
The DeLaval Co. advertise that our Gold 
Medal was awarded on “combined exhiblv 
of separators, Babcock Testers, Davis 
Swing Churns, and other apparatus.” The 
official record reads: “Gold Medal on U. S. 
Separator. Babcock Tester, Davis Swing 
Churn.” It does not read on “combined ex¬ 
hibit” and does not use the word ’’exhibit” 
in any way. The reader will notice the 
Deljaval Co. add the words “combined ex¬ 
hibit” and “and other apparatus.” of 
course, to mislead in their endeavor to 
break the force of their defeat. 
We had in our booth nine separators, two 
Ifahcock testers, and a model of the Davis 
Swing Churn, but no full-sized churn. Our 
booth was 15 feet long by lO feet deep. 
We applied for larger space, but were in¬ 
formed that the building was limited in size 
and we must be content with what was 
assigned us. We had the smallest space of 
any exhibitor of separators. 'I’he DeLaval 
Co.’s booth was 35 feet long by 10 feet deep, 
and contained sixteen separators; there¬ 
fore. if our Gold Medal was on the exhibit, 
it is equally true the DeLaval’s was on 
their exhibit, and as our exhibit was less 
than half as large as theirs, will the intel¬ 
ligent reader believe the DeLaval state¬ 
ments that with less than half the space 
and about half the amount of goods, our 
award was on display? 
The work In the Model Dairy was not 
finished until long after the Gold Medals 
were awarded by the judges. If the awards 
had been given on the result of the work 
in the Model Dairy, the United Stath.s 
would have had the only Gold Medal, and 
the DeLaval an award of second merit 
only, a Silver Medal, as it came out second 
on the work there. 
The DeLaval Co. advertise “that more 
fat was lost in churning (by the U. S.i 
than saved in separating.” The records 
show that 
Average test of the buttermilk 
from the United States was - - .109 
Average test of the buttermilk 
from the DeLaval was ----- .121 
The DeLaval was badly beaten again in 
this line. The U. S. proved to be superior 
in every way. 
The reader must not forget that the 
DeLaval Co. have been advertising for over 
a year that the DeLaval Separator was 
awarded a Grand Prize at Paris, but now 
admit in their advertisements that this 
award was to the “Soci6t6 Anonyme Sepa¬ 
rator,” which company exhibited at Paris 
a butter extractor called a radiator, and 
did not exhibit a cream separator. 
For Proof of our Siaiemenis we Refer to the Official Records. 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, Vt. 
