DRUG PLANTS
UNDER CULTIVATION
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This Bulletin gives general suggestions relative to the culture,
harvesting, distillation, yield, marketing, and commercial prospects
for drug plants. Specific information is also given concerning the
cultivation, handling, and yield of individual species and the demand
and prices paid for the product.
The market demand for many cultivated plant drugs is not large enough
to justify growing them except as small minor crops.
The haphazard production of crude drugs in small lots of a few pounds
usually means a dissatisfied producer.
A special knowledge of trade requirements is necessary in collecting,
curing, preserving, and packing drugs for market.
Most farm products find a ready local market; a special market must be
sought for plant drugs.
High prices for plant drugs do not insure large profits in producing
them. Not the price received, but the difference between the cost of
production and the selling price is the important point.