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qhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 15, 1924 
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quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
This Man Sold “Pusley” 
On page 304. under the heading 
“Killing Weeds with Chemicals,” you 
•state that “gardeners are particularly 
anxious to know how to kill out the seed 
of purslane, which becomes a great pest 
in some sections.” I wonder why gard¬ 
eners should wish to kill out purslane, 
when with a little advertising this plant 
might become one of the most profitable 
crops which a gardener may grow. Pur¬ 
slane, to my mind, is one of the best 
greens, superior to spinach, kale or any 
of the much-heralded garden greens. Be¬ 
cause we have been led to believe that it 
is a weed is no reason for our condemning 
it. Let us make use of it. Let us find 
its right use and then no longer will it 
be a weed. If we gardeners had one- 
third of the vision and business acumen 
of the railroad and industrial managers 
we could sell double of any crop which 
now we complain is so hard to sell. I 
know purslane can be sold for greens, for 
I have done it. I tried it out two years 
ago on my local market. I. like my 
brother gardeners, was bothered tremend¬ 
ously by purslane which grew very lux¬ 
uriantly in my berries and peppers. I 
know that I relish purslane greens, and I 
believed that others would also like them 
if offered for sale. I pulled and packed 
several bushels and put them on the mar¬ 
ket truck, and next morning took them to 
our public market. The first purchaser 
that came along said. “What have you 
there, Warford?” “Dixie greens,” said I. 
“How much?” “Fifty cents per bushel,” 
said I. “I'll try a bushel,” said he and 
a bushel was sold. I sold six bushels and 
then a brother gardener came along and 
saw what I was selling, and at once the 
operations ceased. “By gum,” said he, in 
a voice heard all over the market, “selling 
weeds and getting away with it. You 
poor idiot, don’t you know that you are 
buying common pusley? My farm is full 
of it. come out and gather all you can 
carry. We feed it to the hawgs. No¬ 
body would eat that stuff.” And, sorry 
to say, all the other gardeners joined in 
with him and enjoyed the joke which I 
had “put over” on the buyers. The joke 
was not on the buyers but on us growers. 
People like to take a man at his own 
valuation, and if he puts a low price on 
himself he can hardly blame people for 
believing him. If he says his goods are 
punk he can blame nobody but himself if 
people believe him. After that morning 
no one could have given away a bushel 
of purslane, even though he had offered 
with every bushel a basket of grapes as 
a premium. Purslane, or Dixie greens, 
was a weed and only fit for the hogs. 
Had all the gardeners come to my truck 
that morning and spoken of the good¬ 
ness of purslane as greens, I firmly be¬ 
lieve that before the season was over 50 
bushels could have been sold in that mar¬ 
ket every morning. 
You do not believe it? Well, how 
about dandelions? On my farm dan¬ 
delions are the worst weeds we have in 
the pasture or in a hay field that is left 
seeded for a number of years. I have 
never seen a dandelion offered for sale 
on my market, which supplies a local 
population of more than one hundred 
thousand within a radius of 15 miles. 
Yet, in Boston, our weed, the dandelion, 
is sold by the thousands of bushels. The 
growers around Boston talk up the mer¬ 
its of dandelion. To them, it is no weed 
but a most profitable green. 
There are scores of food plants today. 
going to waste, and we call them weeds 
because we refuse to open our eyes and 
see their merits which are plainly spread 
before us. We can make strawberries 
and watermelons weeds if we chose' to call 
them such. Tomatoes used to be a poison¬ 
ous weed, because people deliberately 
closed their eyes to their merits. I doubt 
not that in times past people have starved 
to death while in their gardens or in the 
fields were growing delicious fruits and 
vegetables that were considered poisonous 
and not fit to eat. Verily ignorance keep- 
eth us poor and hungry. 
“If men will but investigate, to com¬ 
mon sense give heed, they’ll find a use 
for ev’ry plant and then ’twill be no 
weed.” C. °- warfokd. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
R. N.-Y. — Years ago “pusley” boiled 
with pork was considered good food. We 
have eaten many a meal of it. 
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