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FARMERS’ CLUB 
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THE HURAh NEW-YORKEH 
are what 1 use, and seem to be just what 
is needed. They have plenty of potash 
and no nitrogen except a small per cent 
in the bone meal. Cotton-seed meal 
would be very bad, because of the large 
The shade 
November 12, 
Good Clothes At Right Prices 
Grafting Pecans 
A. B. A., Ocean Springs, Miss .—Which is 
considered the best to plant, pecan trees 
grafted on two or four-yeax-old Toots, and 
three or four feet high, or five to six feet or 
higher, taking In consideration the prices 
paid for the trees and the time until they 
come into bearing. Do the five-year-old 
trees come into bearing earlier than the 
throe-year-old? 
cal structure, and not from vines or 
trees, because their roots would sap the 
ground. Wooden strips are best and 
they should be about four inches wide 
and nailed on so as to shade about three- 
fourths of the surface. This will help 
to keep the ground cool and moist but a 
mulch of old sawdust or rotten leaves is 
of the greatest use. These help to make 
A ns.—M y experience and observation conditions similar to those found in the 
leads me to believe that the larger-sized woods where ginseng grows, but without 
pecan trees have more vitality and will the robbery that comes from the roots 
grow better than the smaller ones, pro- of trees or other growth, 
vided they have not been stunted, and 
are in a thrifty condition. That they will 
cost more is a very small matter, for it 
is not the original cost of the tree that 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
THE GRIP OF THE MIDDLEMAN. 
Just now we are very much at the mercy 
is the expensive part, but the time and of the middleman. Take, for instance, our 
attention spent on it and the waiting for wIiea t crop. We are obliged to hold it if 
results. A good pecan tree that would 
grow off rapidly would be cheaper at $5 
than one that was feeble and slow in 
starting costing one cent. Having plant¬ 
ed several thousand of both large and 
small pecan trees my decision is in favor 
of the large ones. H. £. van deman. 
Strawberries on a Mortgaged Farm. 
It., Winconsin .—I have about <3*4 or 
seven acres of strawberries, about 5 y% set 
out in 1909, and 1% the Spring of 1910, 
all in fine order. I have a mortgage 
#1,400, way past due. The property is to 
be sold. My berries dried up or I should 
have come out with money enough to clean 
up. Have I any interest in any of the 
strawberries, 1909 or 1910, or both? 
Ans. —It is doubtful if you would have 
any rights, after confirmation of sale 
upon foreclosure, in strawberry plants 
previously set out upon the mortgaged 
property. .The courts of Wisconsin 
have held that under S.ec. 3164 R. S. 
title to land sold upon foreclosure does 
not vest until confirmation of sale; and 
that until then the mortgagor has a 
right to cut and remove all crops that 
are in condition to be cut and removed 
in the usual course of good farming; 
but any crops, that are not ready to be 
removed in the usual course of good 
farming, pass to the purchaser at fore¬ 
closure sale. ,-i'We reported a case in 
New Jersey where a tenant planted 
strawberries, but before the crop was 
picked a new owner revoked the ten¬ 
ant's lease. This tenant was denied the 
right to pack the berries when ripe, and 
he sued to recover the value of the crop. 
The jury gave him damages on the 
ground that strawberries are emblements 
—that is, crops sown or planted and not 
the product of old roots. This case of 
the tenant is different from yours. 
Best Soil For Ginseng. 
E. L., Asheville, N. C .—I have a small 
strip of land in my garden (here in the 
city) that I am trying to grow ginseng 
roots on. This ground is rich, hut it is 
packy, and seems to run together and gets 
entirely too hard for the plants. Can you 
advise me what to use this Fall in the beds 
to soften it up and at the same time keep 
up the moisture in ground? Also, do you 
have knowledge of a vine that is a runner 
that I could use to shade with? What do 
you think of good rotten stable manure 
and wood ashes to use under the plants, 
also do you know of a fertilizer or bone 
meal that you could recommend? How 
about cotton-seed meal? 
Ans. —Ginseng requires a very loose 
and well drained soil. It loves a great 
amount of humus but this must not be 
full of nitrogen as would be the case if 
stable manure was used to make the 
humus. Woods mold, old rotten logs 
and leaves would be the best material 
for this purpose, but they may be too 
inconvenient to get, as the inquirer 
thinks. Old rotten straw will do or rot¬ 
ten sawdust. Sand would have a loosen¬ 
ing effect. If the soil cannot be made 
loose and like that in which the ginseng 
roots thrive naturally the attempt at its 
culture might better be abandoned. As 
to fertilizers, wood ashes and bone meal 
we realize anywhere near what we should 
from the sale of it. The middlemen realize 
only too well the need of the farmer. They 
know he is obliged to sell sooner or later, 
and right in the face of a big shortage of 
wheat they are holding the price ton. 
Right now we are in the midst of our 
potato harvest. We shall have approxi¬ 
mately between 400 and 500 bushels of as 
fine potatoes as one would wish to see— 
good sized, smooth Rurals. Yet they are 
only offering 25 to 30 cents when potatoes 
are selling in the cities from $1 per bushel 
upwards. There are no more unjust tac¬ 
tics practiced than these same middlemen 
do with the farmers. We have well found¬ 
ed reports that the general potato crop Is 
short, and why in the face of this are we 
only offered the mere cost of production 
or less for our crop? if anyone has a 
grievance, we surely do.. The needed re¬ 
form and legislation, together with a union 
of farmers, for their interests, must come 
to pass or our country will be in the hands 
of the moneyed interests. We surely ap¬ 
preciate greatly the efforts of your jia per 
to bring about justice to the real producers 
of wealth and foodstuffs for the whole peo¬ 
ple. G. L. MEXTZEtt. 
Michigan. 
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