BREEDING FOR PERFUME 
amount so produced is as nothing compared 
with the amount necessary for manufacturing 
in the United States. 
It has been held by some manufacturers 
that the initial work of producing perfumery 
could not be carried on successfully in the 
United States because of the cheapness of the 
labor of foreign countries. On this point one 
of the chief manufacturers of perfume in the 
country says that one of the main reasons why 
perfumery is not extracted in this country is 
rather because people pay so much attention 
to large things in agriculture,—thousand-acre 
farms and the like, when, in reality, far more 
money could be made along intensive lines; 
as, for example, in the line of perfumery pro- 
duction. When told of the work of Mr. Bur- 
bank in the breeding of flowers for perfume, 
he expressed the liveliest interest and amaze- 
ment,—it was a revelation to him of the 
possibilities of his own occupation. 
Doubtless, this manufacturer stands for 
others in his belief that the production of 
perfumery in this country,—the basic pomades 
from the flowers themselves,—has never yet 
been attempted on a large enough scale. The 
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