Excerpt from The Pharmaceutical Era, Vol. 49: Issued Monthly
It is thus seen that we are well provided with all raw material needed for the large inorganic staples. The supply of the basic materials for our organic chemical manufactures runs not less freely. Our unmeasured cereal crops furnish us grain alcohol and ether, our forests wood alcohol, acetone and acetic acid, as well as rosin and turpentine abundantly and cheaply; nor do we need to go out of our country to find the raw material for oxalic, lactic, citric and tartaric acids. A great variety of plants yielding technical or medicinal drugs grows between the tropic of cancer and the 5oth degree of latitude of our main land. Others may be made to grow here. You are aware of the incessant activities of our Gov ernment, particularly those of the Department of Agriculture, in experimental growing of foreign plants on our soil, and notably such plants as camphor trees, miscellaneous fruits, cereals and others. The results have been very valuable. Our insular possessions, especially the Philippine Islands, ch’er further possibilities as well as probabilities, and it may be said without exaggeration that there is hardly a plant that could not successfully be raised in some part of the United States and its possessions.
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