GINNSENG 
To show what an old, long standi 
enterprise the ginseng business of 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 Washire’orn, DC. 
Year Pounds exparted Value 
1368 370,066 380,457 
1899 223,113 05.233 
1900 160,S01 $33,710 
rest 192,406 1,439,434 
345 103,184 919,93 
£520 166,050 4,873,348 
«325 138,131 1,668,221 
«929 233,839 2,765,650 
1930 167,000 “618,006 
1936 OO Uae 1 235,789 
1937 136,664 707.270. 
1938 267,255 1,028,568 
1940 188,520 1,098,151 
1941 129,064 1,090,889 
1946 185876 2,230,789 
1948 418300. 1,984,566 
GINSENG buyers seem to nave gotten rid 
of all their stock and are now keen on 
locating new stocks to buy. War or no 
war the Chinese have always been able to 
take all the GINSENG ROOTS the United 
States has been able to send them. 
LAKE SARAH SPECIALTY FARM 
Rockford, Minnesota. 
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