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■Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 5, 1921 
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Vertical Drainage Through a Well . 
I have been informed that in some I 
parts of the West 8’vamps have been j 
drained by boring down into the roclc bed. j 
Here the rock is a metanaorphic limestone, 
and water is in most instances obtained 
by boring from 75 to ‘500 ft. in depth, j 
the water rising in these bore holes to 50 
or more feet from the surface, evidently 
supplied not from veins in the rock, but 
from seepage through the rock. If water 
is run back into these bore holes, it finds 
it way out, and the holes do not remain 
filled with water. The well driller here 
is planning to drain some swamp land by 
drilling holes in the rock and letting the 
swamp water fiud it« way out through 
these holes. lie has asked me what. I 
thought of the plan, and I have told him 
that I thought little of it. It seems to 
me that these holes would soon clog. 
Connecticut. T. 8. A. 
We have had no personal experience 
with such cases. Perhaps some of our 
readers can answer. We have known of 
cases where such ‘•vertical drainage” 
worked well. There were cases where 
the swamp was in dish or saucer shape, 
underlaid by a thick hardpan. There 
was no surface drainage for the water, 
and it could not work down and away 
through the hardpan. So it remained 
stagnant on the surface. Wells were dug 
at the low spots in the swamp through 
the hardpan and into a layer of sand or 
coarse gravel, located above the general 
water level. Thus the water drained 
down into this sand and passed away. 
These cases depended for their success on 
the location of an open streak of soil 
above the water level. We doubt if 
drainage into a drilled well through the 
■ock would work. 
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Horseradish Culture 
Is horseradish a profitable crop? How 
much do<Y5 a fair root weigh? What is 
the price range per pound? How and 
where could it be marketed in fairly large 
quantities? How can fairly large straight 
roots be obtained? Those we have raised 
have been for the most part thin, straggly 
and crooked. S. H. D. 
Maryland. 
In the large market gardens horse¬ 
radish is nearly always cultivated as a 
second crop, usually succeeding early 
cabbage, cauliflower, beets, etc. When 
planted with early cabbage the ground is 
lined out, usually with a l*2-in. marker. 
On every other line are planted early 
cabbage first, which makes them stand in 
rows 2 ft. apart, and generally 16 to 18 
in. apart in the rows. The planting of 
cabbage is always finished before the 
horseradish is planted, which brings the 
planting of the horseradish about the first 
of May. The horseradish is always 
planted on the lines between the rows of 
cabbage, and at about the same distance 
apart in the rows. Planted thus an acre 
will hold 12.000 or 13.000 plants. The 
sets used for planting are the small roots 
of % or %-in. in diameter, cut into 
pieces 5 to 6 in. in length, the bottom end 
being cut slanting and the top end square 
across, so that when planting it is easy 
to distinguish the top from the bottom 
end of the root, and thus enable the 
planter easily to avoid planting them 
wrong end up. The planting is usually 
done with a sharp stick or a small crow¬ 
bar, about the size of an ordinary broom 
handle, making a bole -about 10 in. deep, 
into which the root is dropped, so that 
its top ’is not less than 3 in. below the 
surface. After the set is dropped in 
the hole in the earth must be pressed in 
around it with the foot, to till up the 
hole, same as iu the planting of other 
plants. The reason for planting the set 
so deeply is to retard its coming up un¬ 
til the cabbage crop has been cleared off. 
If by any chance it should come up be¬ 
fore the cultivation of the cabbage is 
finished, it may be treated as a weed and 
cut off with the hoe, such treatment doing 
it no injury. The horseradish makes its 
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After the cabbage has been cleared off 
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