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is a model of the thoroughness and practicahty with which such matters 

 are taken up by the Department, in their botanical, agricultural, com- 

 mercial and legal aspects. The reader of the bulletin feels a growing 

 pride in the efficiency of our governmental investigators and in the fitness 

 of American soils and climate to produce one more article of import. 

 On reaching the last paragraph of the publication, however, he learns 

 that the entire annual importation of paprika might be grown on 500 

 acres. Are our farmers to be congratulated on the opening of this wide 

 new avenue of plant production, or are they to be commiserated because 

 the cost of the paprika experiments was not expended in a direction that 

 would add 5 % to the present corn crop of the United States? 



