THE RUR-A-L, NEW-YORKER 
1373 
The Home Acre 
How to Save Seeds. 
1. On a farm how can one save seeds 
from tomatoes, etc.? In a seed house do 
they dry the fruit and sift out the seeds, 
or how is it done? 2. How do the seed 
houses sift or thrash out small seeds 
such as flower seeds, and how can one do 
it on the farm, especially those “fuzzy” 
seeds? K. B. B. 
Fair port, N. Y. 
Tomato seed is saved from thoroughly 
ripe fruit by mashing the entire toma¬ 
toes to a pulp. This pulp is allowed to 
stand 24 hours in warm weather and a 
little longer in cool weather; then it is 
stirred very vigorously so as to separate 
the seed from the pulp. Then a quantity 
of water is added. Most of the seed will 
settle to the bottom, and a large por¬ 
tion of the refuse can be poured off by 
gently tipping the barrel; thus water 
is added two or three times and poured 
off. The seed will be found clean and in 
excellent condition in the bottom of the 
barrel with the exception of a few hard 
chunks or cores which may be quickly 
picked out by hand. The seed is quickly 
dried by putting it into a cloth bag and 
squeezing out considerable water. Then 
it may he spread on newspapers in the 
air to dry thoroughly. When it is about 
dry it may be rubbed gently through the 
hands a few times so that the seeds will 
be flocculent instead of adhesive. This 
system is practiced at home and com¬ 
mercially but of course on a much larger 
scale where the seed is saved in quan¬ 
tities. It is impossible to describe the 
methods used by the large seed houses in 
cleaning the many different varieties of 
seeds. It is a most interesting study 
to observe the different methods used. 
Much of the flower seed is saved by 
picking the entire heads. These are 
ground up and sifted by screens of dif¬ 
ferent meshes, and are gently blown out 
by currents of air blowing at different 
rates according to the size, shape and 
weight of the seed. Anyone at home can 
save their own flower seeds by picking 
out the seed by hand. Egg-plant seed is 
saved on the same principle as tomato seed. 
Pepper seed is removed from the peppers 
by cutting around the top of the pepper, 
then pull out the seed crown by taking 
hold of the stem. From this the seed may 
he quickly scraped off. The seed from 
cucumbers, melons, squashes and pump¬ 
kins is removed by cutting the fruit in 
half. Place the material in a tub to 
stand for a day or two so that the seed 
bearing tissues will more easily let loose 
from the seed when it is rubbed through 
the hands. Then water can be added and 
poured off just as with the tomato seed. 
The seeds from turnips, cabbage, car¬ 
rots, etc., may be easily grown at home. 
Allow the seed to become thoroughly 
ripe before it is gathered, then hang it up 
for a few weeks to thoroughly dry when 
the material may be ground up in the 
hands and the seed retained by carefully 
sifting and blowing out the thrash. Al¬ 
ways remember that the seeds which float 
or blow the easiest are the least desirable 
as the heaviest are always the best. 
Ginseng Culture. 
IIow. deep should I plant ginseng seed? 
I have some growing wild in woods. I 
bought plants years ago; now it has seed 
and I want to sow it in woods and let it 
grow wild. If I do so, and leave it alone, 
will it be uncultivated roots later? How 
far apart and where in woods, on north 
or south side, hill or on level? F. h. 
Monroe Co., III. 
I have had about 15 years’ experience 
in growing ginseng under artificial shade. 
During the last seven or eight years I 
have been planting in a walnut orchard, 
wliei'e the trees are growing from four to 
eight feet apart, having been raised from 
nuts planted. In this orchard I make 
the beds as usual, about five feet wide, 
and plant the seeds one inch apart in 
rows six inches apart, and do not trans¬ 
plant. 
This Fall I dug from seed planted 
seven years ago about 150 pounds of root 
grown in this way, and have it now in 
the drier. I see no reason why this 
should not have all the characteristics of 
the wild root. If I were raising it in the 
woods I would prepare the beds as 1 
would in the garden, sowing the seed one 
inch apart in rows six inches apart, for 
convenience in weeding and digging. I 
have never found any great difference in 
the exposure so long as the ground had 
sufficient slope to insure good drainage 
both as to water and air. A. p. s. 
Transplanting Apple Trees; Pruning 
Rambler Roses. 
1. I wish to transplant peach and ap¬ 
ple trees (young trees). When is the 
best time to do it? 2. I also wish to 
trim out Rambler rose. Can I do it now, 
or wait until the sap has ceased running? 
How low can I cut them to have a good 
bloom next year? n. B. P. 
Roselle, N. ,T. 
1. It is a disputed point among fruit 
growers as to which is the best season for 
setting young fruit trees out, some pre¬ 
ferring Fall and others Spring planting. 
Personally I prefer Fall planting for ap¬ 
ple and Spring planting for the peach, 
as Fall planted peach trees are sometimes 
severely injured by freezing in very 
hard Winters. 
2. The Rambler roses may be pruned 
either in the Fall or Spring, hut Spring 
pruning is preferable as the dead and 
weaker branches are more easily recog¬ 
nized at that time and cut out. If the 
plants are old and large, it is a good 
plan to cut away all the old wood, leav¬ 
ing only the young vigorous canes for the 
present year’s blooming. These may be 
left any desired length, from four or five 
feet nearly the full length of the cane. 
The young canes nearly always produce 
the largest and finest clusters of blooms. 
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“Dof.s the farmer where you board 
talk dialect?” “No; he discourses about 
agricultural problems in such scientific 
terms that it is all I can do to look wise 
and pretend to follow him.”—Kansas 
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