More "bird's nest and ginseng have been Imported through the port of Shanghai during the frst four Jmonths of this year than in the cor responding period of last year, says the "Hwa Mel Pao."
"Bird's Nest" is used to make [soups for feasts or as medicine and the ginseng, a herb said to be of great medicinal value, is used for medicine or as a tonic, For the first four months of 1937, bird's nest" to the value of $962,209 }was imported into Shanghai, "This is }some $140,000 more than in' the cor responding period of 1938. Ginseng. imported through Shanghai was this year valued at $1,005,288, or $170,000 more than during the same period of last year, "Most of the ginseng comes {com Japan, Korea and the Kwantung, Leaged Territory, while the "bird's nest" comes from the Netherlands Indies and Singapore,
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