Artificial Shade I Recommend 
In case you do not have a timber tract suitable to 
grow this crop, you can still grow it under artificial 
shade, same as I am showing you here in this photo- 
graph. ‘This is a very inexpensive shade and easy 
to construct, but answers the purpose very well, as 
shown by the healthy looking plants in their second 
year’s growth. Looks like our Canadian. grown 
seed is right at home in our soil and climate. This is 
also a very good way to grow 2-year old plants for 
transplanting purposes in case you do not have a 
suitable place in your timber. A $300.00 investment 
in 10 Ibs. of seed and 2 years time will do the job. 
The Seed Crop 
The Gensing plant starts to produce seed the sec- 
ond year and produces a crop each year thereafter 
until the roots are harvested. 
Our Latest Economical Method of Growing American Ginseng, Worth Its Weight In Silver 
Here is our latest method grow- 
ing this crop, namely by growing 
it 100% according to nature, and 
as this method has proven so sat- 
isfactory and entails so very much 
less work than any other system 
we have tried and the production 
of both roots and seed has proven 
equal to our other methods which 
entails considerable more work, we 
have therefore adopted this method 
ourselves and recommend it to you. 
Here is what we did. Simply went 
out into our timber and selected the 
most favorable places where the 
leaves had accumulated and rotted 
forming a rich mellow soil. We found 
the best place to be in swals or ra- 
vines at the foot of higher ground 
and planted the seed in hills about 
2 ft. apart each way, planting 4 to 
5 seed to each hill, covering seed 
about 1% inch deep, paying no 
attention to planting in beds or 
straight rows. The main thing being 
to select the best spots, not too close 
to large clumps of trees and where there was not too 
much underbrush. Two men doing the work, one go- 
ing ahead loosening the soil by using a sharp mattock 
for each hill. the other following up planting the seed, 
using a hoe, firming the soil for each hill as he planted. 
Now, in order to get a correct check on the pro- 
duction under this method as compared to our other 
method as I have shown in photographs, we planted 
10 lbs. of seed, the same amount required for one 
acre under our other system, and from here on we let 
nature take over and it surely did a good job, as 
when we harvested this crop at 5-years old we found 
the production both in seed and roots equal to that 
produced under any other system. ‘The two men 
that did the work finished the job in one day, so 
here you have the different methods of growing this 
crop. They are all good, but we like this last method 
of ours the best, as it requires so much less work 
with production equal to any other method and I 
believe you will. 
Our Modern Home 
Here is our ultra-modern home. built in 1914, that the crop from one 
acre of Ginseng paid for, and if you have a place where this crop will grow, 
either under natural or artificial shade, I see no reason why you cannot do as 
well. I will be glad to help you get started. 
There is no incentive for us to misrepresent the 
potential possibility in the growing of American 
Ginseng. ‘The high average price of $9.00 per pound 
for the dry root over a period of 30 years with a peak 
of $24.75 per lb. following World War I, tells the 
story. 
This shows the type of roots produced from our 
Canadian grown seed. Note the large chunky roots 
that not only produce more pounds per acre, but 
bring the highest price on the market. This type of 
root bring $18.00 per pound on the market today. 
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This shows one of our Canadian Ginseng Gardens 
where we grow the crop under artificial shade. I do 
not recommend this type of shade, as it is rather 
expensive and not necessary only where the snow 
fall is very heavy, as is the case in the far north. This 
shade was built very substantially from cypress lum- 
ber and cedar posts at a cost of over $2,000 per acre. 
This garden covers 5¥% acres. 
Another glimpse in one of our Gensing Gardens 
showing a block of plants just coming through the 
ground in their first year’s growth from seed. 
