The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-12


out and haul 1t off to some waste place
or gully and then keep at every shoot
that shows and get 1t out, and you can
soon Danish 1t IL the garden Is con-
stantly kept clean and a succession of
crops maintained all the year round
so that the grass is given no chance.
The IIimnlnya Henry.
| have stated that this plant had
been tried here and found worthless
and tender. But ii seems that two
kinds have been sent out, and one or
them is valuable. AS l have letters
from reliable parties who have them
growing. and are very enthusiastic
this blackberry, he should make cor
tain OF getting the good one. for there
certainly Is II poor one with the same
name.
Handling n Low Meadow.
II have some low ground along q
creek which ovcrnows in high water.
But there is not strong current over
II. Is II advisable TO break II now or
wait till spring. The water soon runs
off How ~ the best way to handle
it?" You do not say what your pur-
pose will BIO In breaking this land
If II now has sod on 1t you had bot
ter defer blowing 1t till after the usual
tune OF high water. for freshly ploweu
land would loso In an overflow and
the sod will protect it. Such land Is
better kept in grass, II IT cannot be
protected from the Hoods
Ginseng.
You speak or ginseng suckers. Are
you not preiudiced in this matter? AS
"a matter OF fact, is not ginseng q pay
ing crop? | know II is expensive and
demands a good deal OF work in the
preparation. but. with reasonable sue
cess will il not pay" DO YOU know
Of any one who has made ginseng
culture for tho sale Of the dried roots
profitable? So far as can learn, the
orly ones who have made any money
out of ginseng are tho men who try
to get other people to buy their roots
and seed for planting. The editor oil
the Rural New Yorker recently invcs-
tignted the sale OF ginseng among the
dealers in New York city. one man
who had u largo quantity or the cuiti-
waited roots ON hand told him that ne
would take anything 10 get rid OF me
- stun, and the general statement
OF dealers was that the cultivated roots
would not sell The Chinese are tte
only ones who buy il. and they VIII
rot buy cultivated roots.
Velvet Benns.
please tell me- about the velvet
bean Up TO recently nave never
seen tho white variety, and want to
know II it is earlier and more valuable
than the other kind" cannot say
what the difference may be. have
some seed of the So-callcd white va
riety, which is light In color. but not
white at all. intend to plant these
10 ascertain whether they are earlier
than the old sort. and whether they
will mature further North than the
old one The old variety OF the Velvet
bean will not mature north of the
Southeast corner of the North Carolina
coast region. From there southwark
IT Is a valuable crop for forage and
soil Improvement. and II any OF our
readers have tried the light colorcd
variety, I shall he glad TO hear from
them.
Lookout Mountain Potato.
II have seen good many notices OF
potato called the Lookout Mountain
potato. Is 1t more prolihc than Bliss
Triumph? Is IL easier to keep the
early crop for fall and winter use
than IL is to keep the Triumph and the
Irish Cobblcr? When is the lest time
TO plant 1t. and when VIII il mature?'
have never grown the Lookout Noun
tain potato, but IL has been highly
spoken of in Georgia and other States
III the South. But il cannot be COM
pared with the Bliss Triumph or the
Irish CoDbler. AS ii is u late potato,
and Is never planted for the carly crop,
but always III June or July. Then II
natures at Il time when the potatoes
can be kept for winter use, while the
early potatoes cannot. From what /
have observed, / had rather plant the
seed potatoes OF the CobDler that have
been kept In cold storage, for making
the late crop. These Will have the
advantage that, If planted late. they
cannot only be kept for winter eating.
but will make the best of seed for
planting The eHrly spring crop. No
one, SO far as | can Leah. ever plants
early crop.
LnnSdon Enrliana Tomato.
81 read your articles in The Times.
Dispatch with much interest and l
congratulate you on doing world OF
good. ] would like to know where to
get the Langdon strain Of Earliana to-
mato. as / do not find it in any seed
catalogue" I get the seed from tho
breeders, = ana II. f.. Langdon, Con
Canada line, and l find that tomato
seed from there come much earlier
than homegrown seed and these
young men have bred the Earlanf in
to much smoother shape than the
old strain, which was apt to be
rough They are not seedsmen. but
market gardeners, who nave bough
this tomato for their own use
Farm Demonstration.
There is one thing | would like to
! have you discuss. This is the methods
| OF tho farm demonstrators AS now
| done. l cannot see that it amounts to
| much. The demonstration simply Sc
| lects the best land, and covers II with
manure or commercial fertilizers, and
we know nothing more when they get
! through than we did when they started
| We know very we'll what rich or heay-
! lily manfred soil Will do but what we
/ want to know is how to bring up our
poor land in an economical and profit
able way L think we need an up-to-
date practical farmer, who can teach
us the best methods for building up
our land. growing clover and saving in
the use of fertilizers. and how to use
these In the most judicious way" You
are perfectly right. What is needed
! is help in businesslike farming, and
the showing how one can make the
soil improve while getting. more and
more profitable crops. Some of the de :
monstrators are doing this, but too
many of them are young men lacking
experience in the cultivation OF the soil