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Marketing Horseradish. 
Can you give information where to 
market horseradish roots, and the kind 
of package and probable price. F. o. o. 
New Jersey. 
There is always more or less demand 
for horseradish in any of the larger 
towns and cities, at a price that is remun¬ 
erative and often quite a profit. It may 
be sold in the whole root, scraped ready 
for grating, grated without vinegar and 
prepared ready for use. The best dis¬ 
tributors are the meat dealers, who han¬ 
dle it at a profit of 25% to 30% over the 
first cost. As a rule there is slow sale 
for it in the whole root, as most people 
dislike grating it and will not buy it in 
that form if it is to be had grated. It 
usually commands about 10 cents per 
pound in the root, retail; sometimes and 
in some sections more may be obtained, 
but the average retail price is around 
this. When grated and sold without 
vinegar, the price obtained for it retail 
is from 20 to 30 cents per quart. When 
mixed with good cider vinegar ready for 
use, it is almost always sold in square, 
large mouthed bottles, holding about one- 
half pint, for which 10 cents is charged 
at retail. Grocers and meat dealers pre¬ 
fer it put up in bottles, and for the 
regular 10-eent retail size, the retailers 
usually pay SO to 00 cents per dozen. 
In all large market centers there are 
dealers and distributers to whom horse¬ 
radish may be sold in bulk. The average 
price is from $100 to $150 per ton in the 
root. It may be shipped in crates, open 
head barrels or potato bags, with equal 
safety. K. 
Alfalfa in Northern New Jersey. 
I have given much time and thought to 
the Alfalfa problem, and have been ex¬ 
perimenting for several years in North¬ 
ern New Jersey, in a small way, with 
some success, so feel that I can give some 
assistance to those who are trying to 
grow this valuable forage. 1 find that 
the time to plant Alfalfa is from the 
15th to 25th of August, and the most im¬ 
portant tiling is to have the land in 
right condition—well cultivated and free 
from need seed. This can only be done 
by plowing the land in the Spring as 
early as possible, and keeping it culti¬ 
vated with the Acme harrow (a few days 
after every rain) so that by planting 
time there are no weed seeds left in the 
to)i soil, and the seed bed in condition to 
allow the Alfalfa to grow at once, no 
matter bow dry the season may have 
been. The seed should be sown in the 
early morning before the dew is off, cov- 
ered with the Acme harrow, set to run 
shallow, and then rolled at once. This 
will insure a stand of nothing but what 
comes from the seed sown, and that 
should be the best obtainable. 
A. c. WORTH. 
K. N.-Y.—From our experience we 
think Mr. Worth is correct in this. Does 
it pay to try to start Alfalfa except on 
the deeper valley soils which are well 
adapted to it? There are some soils 
which must bo practically made over be¬ 
fore Alfalfa will thrive permanently. Wo 
think that such soils are more naturally 
adapted to Soy beans, Alsike and cow 
peas, and that these will give us pro¬ 
tein crops cheaper than Alfalfa will. 
Neglected or Abandoned Land. 
I am told about Virginia farms that 
are claimed to be good land with about 
half valuable timber, oak, hickory and 
other varieties. It is claimed that the 
owners held slaves up to the Civil War, 
and when they were freed the land grew 
mostly into timbers. Can this be true? 
Youngstown, N. Y. r. s. 
Yes—why not? Much the same thing 
may be said of parts of New England. 
There were many hillside farms occu¬ 
pied by large families. AYe know of 
cases where four and even more young 
men out of one family went to the Civil 
War, and not one returned to carry on 
the farm. Those who survived went 
AVest to take up government land. Thus 
those fine farms left to the old folks 
slowly went out of commission. Today, 
on many of them, you will find old stone 
walls in the woods showing that trees 
have come up in what were once meadows 
and cultivated fields. In the South, 
when the Civil AVar ended, the labor 
system was upset. Most of the former 
slaves went wandering away. It was im¬ 
possible to care for the great farms 
which, under slavery, were well kept, and 
they were abandoned. Nature is always 
looking over the fence trying to get her 
fingers into an abandoned farm, and these 
fingers mean trees and brush. Much of 
this land, both in Now England and 
A'irginia. is naturally strong—capable of 
producing good crops. The changes! 
which produced the forest, however, may 
have destroyed markets or means of [ 
transportation, or changed conditions so ! 
that the place would not be suitable for 
a home. Do not take the word of any j 
real estate agent or land owner as the 
final word. Do not buy any such land 
without going to see it and looking it 
all over. Geo. A. Cosgrove tell how hi' 
went ‘‘back-to-the-land.” He hunted up 
a farm in the mud of Spring and did not 
like it. After hunting all Summer he 
went back to the first farm in the glory 
of the Autumn foliage—and bought it. 
SHORT STORIES. 
Lime and Manure. 
Is it true that a small quantity of air- 
slaked lime destroys the efficiency of 
rotted manure? Would it be advisable to 
use the two together in a trench for 
sweet peas? .j. n. t. 
Auburn, N. Y. 
The action of the air-slaked lime 
would be to set free some of the am¬ 
monia in the manure. If this mixture 
were made above ground or in the open 
air, the manure would bo lost. If, how¬ 
ever, the two were mixed together in 
the ground, there would not be any par¬ 
ticular loss, because while the ammonia 
might still be set free, it would be ab¬ 
sorbed and held in the soil to be used by 
the plants, and it would thus be safe, to 
mix the two together in the soil in case 
you wish to make the manure more avail¬ 
able. 
English Sparrows and Cabbage AVorms. 
From time to time I read inquiries in 
your columns in regard to the much de¬ 
spised English sparrow. AA'e, also, used 
to consider them a genuine nuisance, but 
the last two years we have discovered 
one redeeming feature. AA T notice they 
have taken to the cabbage worm. On 
several occasions I have seen sparrows 
crawling among the loose leaves of a 
growing cabbage to hunt out and devour 
every worm. Now the question is. have 
they lately acquired this taste, and only 
in this vicinity? If they all learn to eat 
cabbage worms, they are not to be de¬ 
spised. I know they are troublesome in 
devouring lettuce and green peas. Young 
peavines can be protected by an applica¬ 
tion of paris green powder sifted on 
when dew is on. Hut you will not kill 
a single sparrow. They will not indulge 
in the luxury after the application. 
Staunton, Ill. a. l. k. 
Setting Up a Buzz Saw. 
Take two planks eight to 10 feet 
long, placing them parallel with the 
belt, one at each end of the saw 
frame. Bolt or fasten with wood screws 
frame to plank about in the middle. At 
the end of the plank next to the belt 
toward the power drive a %-inch bolt 
about two inches in the ground so that 
frame cannot slide toward power. Also 
drive a bolt behind the frame at the side 
of the same plunk so that the frame can¬ 
not swing. If you wish to tighten belt 
slide saw plank and all and put a stick 
between bolt and end of plank, and it 
will stay in line as well as it was be¬ 
fore. The two bolts driven in the ground 
will be all that is necessary to hold it 
solid, doing away with crotches, stakes 
or other fastenings, besides being a good 
real quicker set up. h. g. Andrews. 
That Nasty Fly. — I keep a horse 
and a cow, both in the same barn near 
the house. There is a basement under 
the barn, opening to the east, and a hen- 
yard with running water in the yard. 
The manure is thrown down into this 
basement every day and a little cracked 
corn is scattered in it; 30 hens soon 
scratch it around and woe to the bugs, 
worms and larva? in it. I spray the cow, 
horse and hens with soluble oil 50 to one. 
Also the stables, henhouse, etc. IVe have 
no flies to bother us. I have no dead 
water around and spray with soluble oil 
all sinks, drains, etc., daily. AYe have 
no mosquitoes. Our home is in South¬ 
ern Vermont. A. L. B. 
La bob SnoRT-Curs.—AA'e have a tank i 
for making lime-sulphur, make 500 gal¬ 
lons at a time, hut can make more and 
use from the tank without barreling it 
if we wish. AVe cook by direct steam 
and coils both, and have a marine engine, 
and with the propeller blade in the cen¬ 
ter of the tank can reverse the blade as 
often as desired; it stirs up contents of 
the tank running at high speed. I have 
become tired of sowing high-priced clover, 
Alfalfa, etc., on top of the ground, and 
so have bought a disk grass seeder, and 
all over the country, farmers are doing 
the same thing. c. A. 
Orleans Co., N. Y. 
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