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The excellent snowing reported by Professor Shinu and the few 

 trees occasionally met with in the South indicate that the tree can be 

 successfully grown on sandy clay soils throughout the southern part of 

 the Gulf States and South Carolina. 



Whether the cork industry will flourish in the United States can 

 only be proved by time; the probabilities are that it will be successful 

 and be of immense value. The official statistics show that the United 

 States has imported cork during the year 1802 to the value of $1,689,724, 

 and during 1893 to the value of *1,993,025. Cork is now at eleven 

 times the price that was paid for it in 1790. This is certainly induce- 

 ment enough for us to try to protect ourselves by entering into the 

 production of cork. 



