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quotations. If, in spite of this, we were compelled to increase our 

 production considerably, this may be taken as a striking proof that 

 our product can hold its own against the competition of the numerous 

 "cheap" qualities with which the market is flooded. 



Angelica Oil. Owing to the exceptionally low prices obtained 

 in the 1905 season, a large number of the Thuringian angelica growers 

 gave up the cultivation last year, as other plantings were more remuner- 

 ative. The crop was in consequence proportionately smaller, and the 

 quotations for fresh root free from earth advanced from 4.50 marks 

 per 100 kilos in 1905, to about 6.50 marks. But many complaints 

 were made about a bad yield of oil, and for this reason we were glad 

 to have at our disposal our own Miltitz crop of which the yield was 

 completely satisfactory. The slight increase in the price which we 

 were compelled to make for our own distillate, is really not at all 

 proportionate to the position of the crude material. 



Anise Oil. Only after the second anise market at Alexejewka 

 it was possible to take an approximately correct view of the result of 

 the Russian anise harvest, and the information received from our cor- 

 respondents practically confirms the estimate given in our last Report. 

 The total harvest is said to be about 135000 poods, i. e. about 

 15000 poods more than in 1905. Although the quality of the seed 

 brought to the market at Alexejewka turned out somewhat better than 

 at the first market at Krasnoje, it could by no means be called 

 good, as the yield of oil again proved to be insufficient. Really green 

 anise could but rarely be found, and if found, could only be bought 

 at an increased price. The unfavourable weather immediately before 

 and during the harvest, as already mentioned, has had a most injurious 

 effect on the quality. The high average price of the goods (about 

 2.50 roubles per pood) was not sufficiently inviting, in view of the 

 deficient yield of oil, to induce large purchases of anise on the part 

 of our industrial branch. In consequence of an insufficient demand 

 the prices of anise oil distilled in Russia declined in the course of 

 the last few months to the parity of about 14 marks cost-price 

 per kilo, without, however, exciting any particular interest in the 

 article. 



From the other anise-producing districts no recent information is 

 available. As already stated by us on a previous occasion, the use 

 of anise oil is distinctly falling off, since in anethol there is placed a 

 product at the disposal of the consumers, the use of which, in 

 view of its purer taste and greater richness, offers advantages which 

 no one can gainsay. 



Artemisia Oils. Fr. Rabak, to whose contributions to the 

 knowledge of these oils we referred already in our October Report 



