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Anise Oil. Only after the second anise-market had been held 
at Alexejewka was it possible to take a clear view of the result of 
the last anise-harvest. This was generally considered to be a failure, 
both as regards quantity and quality of the seed, of which only one 
half has a normal, and the other half a mottled, brown appearance. 
In view of the exceptionally unfavourable weather-conditions, such a 
result could cause no astonishment. 
In Roumelia, where the cultivation of anise appears to have increased 
considerably, the result of the anise-harvest has been very abundant. 
This variety is 'becoming a competitor of the Russian anise, well 
worthy of consideration. The prices, at first low, were soon driven 
up by the prevailing conditions, and at present they no longer leave 
a profit, although fairly large stocks are apparently still in existence. 
The principal centre of production appears to lie in Eastern 
Roumelia. The export of anise from Dedeagatsch, a small port of 
that province, amounted in 1902 to 355982 kilos. The shipments from 
Salonica, though, are probably much more important. 
The larger parcels worked up by us gave satisfactory results. 
The total export of anise from Bulgaria was in 1902: 472055 kilos, 
value 198786 francs. 
Russia exported in 1902 a total of 2 62 797 poods, value 54 1048 roubles, 
and in 1903, by sea, only 156000 kilos, against 296000 kilos in 1902. 
The unfavourable situation in Russia was bound to react on the 
prices of anise oil and anethol, and this would probably have been 
the case to a much greater extent, if one had been dependent on the 
Russian seed alone. But this is not so, and everyone who is interested 
in anethol will rejoice in the fact that there are sufficient other sources 
from which an anethol, answering the highest requirements, can be 
produced, independent of the Russian market. 
Our sales of anethol reached an exceptional height. Large con- 
tracts for the raw material enable us to accept orders for any quantity, 
for prompt or forward delivery. 
The comsumption of ordinary anise oil is growing smaller and 
smaller, as in consequence of the important difference in price it shows 
no advantage when compared with the purer and finer anethol. If it 
is taken into consideration that anise oil, in addition to anethol, contains 
about lo^o of foreign substances, it follows that as a matter of fact 
the yield of anethol is higher by the same percentage, and this agrees 
with the difference in the prices of these products. 
The pseudo nitrosite of anethol has already been produced years 
ago by Tonnies^), but its constitution had been wrongly interpreted, 
^) Berliner Berichte 11 (1878), 151 1. 
