170 TWENTY-FIRST REPORT. 



BEET SUGAR. 



Value of products $10,476,870 



Value added by manufacture 4,249,278 



Total ?14,726.154 . 



CANNING AND PRESERVlI\u. 



Value of products $4,970,911 



Value added by manufacture 1,896,991 



Total $6,867,902 



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FLOUR AND OTUER GRIST MILL PRODUCTS. 



Value of products $34,860,803 



Value added by manufacture 5,501,392 



Total $40,362,195 



LUMBER AND TIMBER PRODUCTS. 



Value of products $61 ,513,560 



Value added by manufacture 32,471,918 



Total $93,895,478 



ESSENTIAL OIL. 



Value of products $486,159 



Value added by manufacture 71,077 



Total $557,236 



WOOD DISTILLATION. 

 Not including Turpentine and Rosin. 



Value of products $2,398,927 



Value added by manufacture 1,243,578 



Total $3,642,405 



CHICORY. 



Amount of Chicory 19,204 000 pounds 



Value of product $70,020 



All other states, value of product $80,000 



GINSENG. 

 Value of product (sixth state in production) .... $13,794 



MINT. 

 Value of products $194,391 



BROOMS. 

 Value of product ^417,940 



PULP WOOD. 

 Value of product $858,280 



POTASH FROM WOOD ASHES. 

 Value of product $12,890,000 



These figures of course are not up to date and do not furnish us their real signifi- 

 cance. For instance, most well-informed people in the United States liave heard of 

 Kalamazoo celery. Few people probably realize that among the trade in essential oils 

 throughout the Avorld, the Kalamazoo mint oils are held in equal esteem. The trade 

 in ginseng of Kiilkaska County and the chicory of Isabella County is also of grent value. 

 All of the slippery elm liarl< used in medicine and tlie arts is gathered in .Michigan. 

 Theri' has l)een a wonderful development during recent years of the crude drug industry 

 in .Mieliigan and judging from the advertisements in the trade journals and my owii 

 knowh'dgc of what is being accomplished, it is destined to surpass North Carolina, 

 which has helil precedence for nearly a century. 



THE DKUG PRODUCTS OF MICHIGAN. 



One of the most interesting observations in this connection is the fact that 

 many of the plants growing in abundance in our native vi^oods are among the 

 most valuable from a medicinal and economic point of view. In addition to 

 the sugar maple, which is widely distributed through the state, we may note 

 among the common trees and shrubs of considerable commercial interest the 

 following : The sweet or black birch, which yields a volatile oil resembling 

 wintergreen ; the balsam fir, which furnishes an oleo-resin that is used exten- 



