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GINSENG 
To show what an old, long standing, stable 
enterprise the ginseng business ci‘ the United 
States is, we give below statistics from the U.S. 
Bureau Foreign & Domestic Commerce, showing 
the number pounds exported and the value 
each year for the past eighty years, the figures 
for the intervening years may be had from us 
or from the Bureau at Washington, D. C. 
The Chinese nation and people have had their 
“ups and downs” like other people but no matter 
how “hard up” they have been or in what condi¬ 
tion political affairs were with them, these 
statistics show they have always managed some¬ 
how to buy our ginseng. Even during 1938 up 
to November 30 China bought $924,244.00 worth 
of ginseng from the United States and paid ioi 
it, at the rate of $6.10 per pound and it is safe 
to say the exporters did not over esornate hie 
true cxnort value and necessitate the Chinese 
Year 
Pounds exported 
Value 
1858 
367,055 
$193,793 
1868 
370,066 
330,457 
1890 
223,113 
605,233 
1900 
160,901 
833,710 
1910 
192,403 
1,439,434 
1915 
103,184 
919,931 
1920 
160,050 
1,875,348 
1925 
133,131 
1,638,221 
1929 
099 C9Q 
o J 
2,765,650 
1935 
167,000 
618,077 
1933 
295,032 
1,235,789 
1930 
167,000 
618,000 
1937 
136,644 
707,250 
For 11 
months of 
1938 
151,260 
924,244 
LAKE 
SABAH SPECIALITY FARM 
itockford. Minn. 
