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for the dry farms of the west Many choice varieties
have been introduced and some these are yielding
from 20 to SO per cent than those of the past
A great deal OF work is being done in millets and
sorghums, and Uncle Sans agents in Manchuria have
sent several of these from that country. They are
also using the Siberian sorghums and kowliangs from
China. These millets have been married to others,
and their children may be better adapted to our soil
and climate than the parents from PARKWAY Asia
We are introducing alfalfas from Siberia which
withstand the cold and drouth also drouthresist-
ing trees which will produce stock food and fruit
Among the fruit trees is olive which grows in the
half desert parts of North Africa, where the rainfall
for at stretch is often less than ten inches
In the same connection is the date which is being
grown in the irrigated hot regions of southern Cali
fornia and Arizona. There is also a large-fruited
dry-land Chinese date, which are grating and
which seems to promise dried fruit industry
The Marriage of the Rice.
Uncle Sam is giving crops to the wet lands as
Of the world and marrying the different varieties
This is job There are no less than 1,400 different
kinds of that grain in Japan, India and China and
some OF these are found to grow better than our ia
nous South Carolina rice, which long considered
the best of the world Not long ago sent the late
Dr.. M s. A. Knapp to Japan and he brought hack
rice from the island of Kiushu which has revolution
lied this industry and added millions of dollars the
value of our crop We have rice for the upands
as well for the and the prairies of Ar
kansas, we raising twice much to the acre as
they are getting in South Carolina and Georgia We
every and that at less than Asia can raise
it with cheap cooe labor. The is in the use
of machinery and the profits are large averaging $50
and upward per acre.
Since these introductions the rice lands of the
United States have greatly extended The crop is
N Arka and
and 1t is said that it be grown any soil adapted
to wheat or cotton provided the climate conditions
right
Some Other New Crops.
We are also breeding new eottons marrying the
best of India and Egypt favorte daughters of
the uplands and sea islands. We breeding for
seed we'll for lint. We are breeding corn for
the oil contained in the and increase the
size of the and down the size the cob We
are making oranges which will withstand the frost;
extending the orange belt 400 miles farther north
We marrying the lettuces joining the varieties
of flax that the plants taller and the fibers
are better. We are marrying the tobaccos from all
parts of the world and growing certain kinds wrap
pers and others for filters and binders.
In this work aided by agricultural explorers
who have been sent all the world and who are
scratching the skin of old Mother Earth for new
plants and seeds There is bureau devoted to this
introduction in the west wing of the Agricultural
department, and It is one of the busiest places in
Uncle Sans factory. 1t has already introduced some
thing like $4,000 vegetable creations and more
are arriving each day The moment comes in it
is sent to the special station plant breeder best
fitted to test and develop it, and within few days
is under the earth and in Just the conditions fitted
to give good results. Records kept every re-
oeipt and there several hundred thousand
cards which tell the story of each distribution.
The Seeds and Plants of One Week.
During my stay in the department Prof David Fair
child who is at the head OF the bureau showed me
something OF the work as it is going on. With
him went over the cards that have been received
the last week. Here the items. The first is a
new alfalfa from Pretoria, South Africa the second
scarce barley from Nepal in India, and third Jap
anese larch sent from Copenhagen in Denmark. And
then We have new magnolia from Calcutta, which
will be married to yellow magnolia just received
from Buitenzorg, Java kind of banana which
comes here through the Kew Gardens OF England and
twenty-one bulbs of the yellow lily, which are sent
from va Chow-fu in China on the borders of Tibet,
Other importations OF this week a white rubber
from near Buena Ventura, Colombia, which II is
thought may be grown the Everglades of Florida,
a new tobacco from Santa Clara, Cuba, which may
Withstand the Granville tobacco insect and passion