By 1902 the export price of ginseng was $5.25 
cents per pound dry, the cultivated being so much 
larger and more vigerous the 1 exporters paid 20% 
more for it but the users said no and soon after 
the- cultivated brought - 20% less than the forced, 
pampered, over grown and usually- immature, so 
called cultivated. 0 
Both Encyclopedia Americana (Vol. -9) and 
Penny Encyclopedia {Vol. 41 printed in 1835) are- 
accountable for the statements that ginseng is used 
in China- for almost every ill,-and that man shaped - 
roots frequently Command their weight-in gold.' 
Practically-every crop of ginseng before it 
reaches the consumer is sorted into a dozen dr more 
grades, depending on age, size-outside color, inside 
color, wrinkles lengthwise or around, texture, spaci- * 
fic gravity, taste, etc. and nearly-every city or local- - 
ity prefer or demand some particular one of these 
grades, all of which makes it difficult io sell except - 
thru the regular trade -channels. 
Nearly-every dealer in raw furs, wool and hides 
in the United--States are dealers in ginseng and - 
many New York -dealers will -send -a buyer hun ¬ 
dreds of miles to bid on two or three barrels full. 
There is no record df any-American-or Euro¬ 
pean scientific investigation to determine whether 
or not 400,000,000 Chinese have or have not been - 
all wrong‘in their faith in ginsehg for several oen- - 
turies but the fact remains that Chinese scientists, 
Doctors, etc., that have been educated in America • 
and Europe, have never sard or done -anything that - 
has injured the ginseng business. 
What must the Chinese 0 think of the-millions 
ocidentials -who -repeatedly dry to rub iiriiment-Uhrh • 
the cuticle-in-the belief it can really-be-done and 
somehow neutralize or relieve their rheumatism 
or neuritis, et§., something both impossible and un- - 
scientific 11 and c yet so-Often tried.- 
It is no more difficult do raise a garden size-- 
patch-of ginseng'than it is to raise a vegetable ^ 
garden, not nearly- so much work because ginseng 
must %e raised under the shade of trees, Wines Or 1 
artificial shade made' of cull lath, lumber edgings, 
brush or reeds or even hay thatch as is practiced in- - 
Manchuria, it grows best under some sort of vege¬ 
table mulch like decayed sawdust, leaves, chaff, 1 
straw, or perhaps best of all is marsh'hay because 
free- of -weed -seedsr With -any crop igrown under-- 
