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January 13, 1917. 
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A Crop of Horseradish 
The old-fashioned way of growing the 
home supply of liorseradish was to plant 
a few roots in one corner of the kitchen 
garden. 'Whenever a little horseradish 
was needed, iiart of the roots were dug 
out and grated up for use, while the parts 
of the roots left in the ground would 
throw up a new loaf growth and continue 
to reiilace that which was taken away. 
With this method a very inferior product 
was grown. The commercial growers find 
that they can jiroduce a very much finer 
product by each year digging out the en¬ 
tire root system of the plants by run¬ 
ning along each .side of the row with a 
deep ninning plow, throwing tlie furrow 
towards the row, so that long unbroken 
side roots may he had for the next year’s 
ci-op. Thus the plants can he pulled up 
easily and shaken out. The roots which 
are large enough are trimmed up for mar¬ 
ket. and all the side roots are saved for 
sets for the following season. The crop 
may be dug during the Fall. Winter or 
early Spring, because freezing does not 
injure it. 
The sets are made from the side roots 
and these are usually cut so that they 
ai-e four to six inches long; I. however, 
jirefer them just about as long and thick 
as an ordinary unused lead ixuicil. The 
tops are cut square across and the bottom 
end is cut on a slant. Thus, they will be 
sure to ho set right end up. These sets 
I nmy he buried outdoors, freezing will not 
harm them. They are especially injured 
if allowed to dry out or if too many are 
pitted together. 
Flarly in the S[)ring the field is i>repareil 
for the horseradish by iilowing under 
hr(;adcast manure and mai’king out rows 
usually .3J4 feet ajiart. Fmdilizer esjie- 
cially high in phosphoric acid may be 
sown along the rows. This fertilizing 
I i;;aterial is cover('d up Avith a little plow 
or an asimragus ridger. The horseradish 
roots are set in this ridge about 20 inches 
apart. T’sually they are put on a little 
slant, with the top two inches under top 
of the soil. 
Many growers like to plant a quick 
maturing crop along with the “radish” 
because it is slow in starting. Extra early 
cabbage idants may be sot between each 
horseradish set. ^Two rows of lettuee 
plants may be set, or two rows may be 
seeded on each ridge. However, early 
short-vined garden peas are the most pop- 
uliir crop. If the seed is to be sown ’!>. 
the same line with tlie sets, the peas 
should be seeded first. However, many 
jirefor to sow the seed in the little fur¬ 
row close to the m:ide-ni) ridge. After tho 
peas are picked, the vinos should he pulled 
up and cai'ted off. if they are iilaiited in 
the row, but. if the seed is planted near 
the horseradish row. the vines may be 
plowed under where they grow. 
The horseradish should be cultivated 
close and often. Many side roots will de¬ 
velop along the entire length of the orig¬ 
inal sot. Those which develop near the 
top of this set will not increase the size 
of that set. Therefore, close cultivation 
will break off many of the side roots, 
which would do more harm than good. 
Some growei-s prefer not to grow’ a 
catch crop, and give more attention to 
their horseradish crop. They even pull 
the soil away from the upper part of the 
set early in its growth and inh off these 
side roots near the toj), and besides that 
they find it pays to cut off all excejit the 
best placed leaf head, so that a straight, 
lai’go. clean root may be grown with one 
large solid loaf head. Thus, a most de¬ 
sirable product is produced, because it is 
most easily prepared for grating whieh is 
the final test of this most popular condi¬ 
ment. R. w. 1 )E BAU.X. 
Preparing Horseradish 
Could yon tell me what to put in 
grated horseradish to keep it white and 
not let it turn ii dark brown. c. P. 
Burlington, N. .1. 
There is nothing that yon can put into 
grated horseradish to prevent it from 
turning brown. The proper thing to do 
is to have a good supply of white wdne 
vinegar. As your horseradish is grated 
allow it to drop immediately into this 
vinegar so that the air w’ill not have a 
chance to work on the radish and make 
it brown. White wine vinegar can be 
purchased in almost any town at a rea¬ 
sonable cost. R. 'W* 9. 
I 
I New York State Agricultural 
j| Society Meeting 
d'lie program for the annual meeting 
of the New York State Agricultural So¬ 
ciety at Albany. .January IGth and 17th. 
has not been fully made up as we go to 
pi-ess. The following addresses, howevei-. 
are expected : 
Senator Wicks will speak on the work 
of his committee. 
A lively di.scnssion is inaYmised in re¬ 
gard to food legislation. 
Prof. Weld of Yale T'niversity will 
speak of cooperation and marketing. 
Rabbi I.evy of Pittsburgh. I’a.. will 
talk about distribution of f.arm products. 
Ii. G. Robinson of New York will d's- 
enss the State liand Bank. 
This will be the program for the first 
day. 
In the evening Governor Whitman 
will lirohahly deliver an address, as will 
also Hr. .1. G. Sohnrman of ('ornell, and 
M. I). Mnnn of the National Dairy 
Conneil. ^Ir. Geo. W. Sisson, ,Tr., will 
speak on “Agricultural Legislation,” and 
Mr. L. S. Bayard of Pittsburgh will 
speak of boycotts for farm produce. 
Cha.s. L. Ba.ssett of the National Agri¬ 
cultural Department will speak on staud- 
ardiz.qtioii. e.nd Herbert Quick will dis¬ 
cuss the Federal Loan association. 
Ventilating Celkr; Filling Cistern 
1. I built a biirn .‘ICx.oO feet on the oast 
side of a hill. The barn stands east and 
west, and a cellar runs nner it 32 feet 
from the east end. The walls are con¬ 
crete. and the fioor at the east end is level 
with the ground. The cellar is intended 
for storage of fruits :md vegetables (es- 
IK'cially apples), and an air space (5x10 
inches was left in each end of the east 
w.-ill near the floor. 3’he earth comes up 
around the walls on the west end, and 
similar spaces were left there at the top 
of the walls on each side. Will this give 
sufficient air circulation, or should shaft.s 
he built at the west end, and if so how 
high? If shafts are built, they will I'.ave 
to run through the barn floor and h.e in 
the barn, otherwise they would be in the 
way of the sliding dooi-s. 
2. A cistern seven feet deep was dug 
alongside of the barn. The bottom, eight 
feet h.v nine and a half, is two feet above 
the cellar floor. An inch jiiiie leads from 
the bottom of the cistern through the cel¬ 
lar wall. I intend to run tli > pipe nndei’ 
the cellar fioor and then down the hill so 
as to fill the tank on the si>rayer by 
gravity. If the distance' from the cis¬ 
tern is 100 feet, will an inch pipe he 
liirge enough? AVhen the cistern is half 
full of water, how many minutes will it 
take to fill the tank (200 gallons) ? 
M’ashington, I). (’. F. o. 
1. The ventilation pi-ovided for this 
cellar will probably be sufficient. Much 
will dejiend. howove'r, upon tlie diie'cfon 
of the prevailing wind. If the wind is 
from the west the ventilation will not he 
nearly so goo<l as if from the oast. 
2. As to the other problem, L. G. has 
told us nothing of the amount of fall froTU 
the barn to the tank filling station. Tho 
discharge of water, at the barn, from a 
one-inch pipe, coming out beneath the 
barn fioor from the half full cistern, as 
di'.sci-ihed, will be at the rate of about 1(5 
feet i»er second. At this rate the 200- 
gallon tank will fill in from five to six 
minutes. This is at tlie barn. We may 
presume from the description that tho fall 
“down the hill” from the barn will, at 
least, overcome the friction in the jiipe 
from the barn to the filling station. 
F. I.. A!.LEX. 
Culture of Garlic 
Will yon give information regarding 
the growing of garlic? w. K. 
.Iordan, N. Y. 
"I'lie culture of this vegetable is com¬ 
paratively easy. It is propagated by 
procuring a good sn)>ply of the garlic 
bulbs. Each one of tliese.bulbs is com- 
]iosed of several little cloves which when 
broken apart correspond to onion sets. 
These little cloves an; set out early in 
the Spring and about in the same man¬ 
ner in which yon would put out onion 
sets. The culture is nece.ssarily the 
same, and in Fall tin* crop is gathered 
and may be stored somewhat the same 
as onions, or the tops may be braided to¬ 
gether so that the garlic will be in 
strings. In this way it is hung up in 
the air, and may be very nicely dried 
out for use any time during the Winter. 
R. w. D. 
