In the mid1860s, 7085 growers cultivated 12,226 acres of poppy; by 1878 official pressure had reduced them to 2,406 growers on 2,170 acres.
The experiment was conducted in an area with naturally occurring common poppy and ivy-leaved speedwell populations.
One acre of poppy plants at the time rendered around two pounds of refined opium.
This suggests that the opium illegal business was expanding and that poppy crops were spreading along several northwestern states.
Only licensed cultivators could grow poppy; unlicensed cultivation was a criminal offense.
They cultivated rice, maize and poppies on the farms and grew vegetables in the kitchen gardens when the situation allowed.
It shows us the debt that should be paid, not by the ritualistic annual wearing of poppies, symbols of remembrance, but by the provision of readily available therapeutic services.
Highly variable nutritional values are given for other oilseeds, such as soybeans, flax, poppy seed and false flax, and their cakes26-29.
