Drug Plants Under Cultivation

The bulletin provides practical guidance for cultivating medicinal and commercial drug plants, covering site selection, soil and climate requirements, propagation, harvesting, distillation, yields, marketing, and economic prospects. It stresses trial plantings on small experimental plots to determine local suitability and warns that production costs, labor, and trade specifications govern profitability more than high market prices. The text lists species adapted to various regions, outlines proper curing, packing, and handling to meet buyer standards, and offers estimates of yields and distillation practices while discussing when small-scale versus larger-scale production may be economically justified.