Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1915 — Information for Farmers. [ARTICLE]

Information for Farmers.

The cultivation of drug plants in the United States, concerning which there has been considerable agitation since the outbreak of the present war in Europe, is the subject of a farmers’ bulletin recently issued by the department of agriculture. This publication gives, in addition to general instructions regarding cultivation, harvesting and marketing, specific and detailed information concerning about sixty of the leading drug plants which have been grown in this country. The author, W. W. Stockberger, takes a conservative view of the possibilities offered by this branch of agriculture in this country, and especially deprecates the extravagant claims made in some quarters by persons interested in the sale of plants and seeds, who ask “the public to believe that extraordinary profits may be realized from growing medicinal plants, even in a situation no more promising than the average city back yards.”