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much; but if you were to go to the same places now 

 you would not find possibly more than from five to fifty 

 pounds, and at some of them you would not find 

 the five." 



These statements are also upheld by the following 

 export figures for the four years that have passed since 

 the appearance of Part I of this book. These figures 

 foim a continuation of the table given on Page 47, 

 and are derived from the same source ; viz, the Bureau 

 of Statistics of the United States Treasury Depart- 

 ment. The great increase in the average price per 

 pound cannot fail to strike even the casual reader. 



The author is indebted to the several firms whose 

 names appear below for prices paid by them to collec- 

 tors and growers. Messrs. Samuel Wells & Co., Cin- 

 cinnati, Ohio, whose list of prices for the years 1889- 

 1898 is given on Page 47, quote the following for the 

 last three vears : 



In November, 1901, the same firm addressed the 

 following communication to Orange Judd Company: 



"We have paid for the best qualities of cultivated 

 root in 1899 somewhat over $8, 1900 $7, and this 

 year on an average of about the same price as last. 

 We consider cultivated ginseng worth about twenty 

 per cent more than the wild; however, this is a very 



