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Show Good Market For Ginseng i Product Is Highly Esteemed In China, and Its Cultivatlon'ls Well Worth While. When u product has no market value for food, medicine or other use In this country It Is surprising to find It representing rep-resenting it n export value of more than ?U,000,000 a year, with an established market extending back more than hulf a century. Ginseng Is Mich u product. American Ameri-can medlciil authorities have never recognized It us having curative value, hut for more than n hundred years Its root has been highly esteemed In China, nnd the 11)11) shipments of 2S2,-000 2S2,-000 pounds sold ut from $3 to ?-':i it pound. American ginseng wns taken to China Chi-na by early traders, and formed tlio principal part of the cargo taken by tho first American ship that visited Chlnn. This ship, the .Empress of China, sailed from Now York for tho celestial empire on Ft binary '-'l', ITS!. Decrease In the available quantity of wild gln&eng has led many American t farmers and gardeners to undertake the domestic culture of ginseng, and the United States Department of Agriculture Ag-riculture has Issued a new bulletin, Farmer's Bulletin No. 1181, outlining the best methods of culture. The department de-partment previously Issued Fiuiner's Bulletin No. TM on diseases of the ginseng plant. Ginseng culture Is a long nnd precarious pre-carious process, requiring six years from seed to marketable root, with the most particular care during the entire process. The market also h ljmlted to such an extent that It Is estimated 700 acres would furnish a continuous supply sup-ply of all that Is needed. In the middle mid-dle of the lust century exports to China were eight limes what they were in 1010. The price at that' lime aver-aged aver-aged !)! cents u pound. In 1010 It averaged av-eraged $7.-0 per pound. |