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MANCHURIA. Mukden. Mr. E. C. Parker, Agriculturist of 

 Bureau of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, writes June 6, 

 that he can find nothing in regard to the cultivation of the 

 vetches nn Manchuria, as the vetches are not grown there. 

 Wild vetches do, however, occur. 



PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. Manila. Mr. C. V. Piper, Agrostolo- 



ist in Charge of Forage Crop Investigations, writes May 23 



:ila, where he has been investigating the forage crop 



tuation for the War Department , that he will secure all the 



f s in the islands before leaving: and arrange 



with Mr. Wester, late of this Office, to get the others for 



us. He speaks of the "Carabao" as a "decidedly fins variety 



which breeds true to seed", and says it can be gotten at any 



time in season at the mere cost of the fruit, about two cents 



apiece. Ophicpogon, which he has seen growing both at 



. and the Hongkong Botanical Gardens, impresses him as 



" Lrable plant to cover the ground, and particularly 



steep slopes in very shady places". 



RHODESIA. Mr. J. Speyer Sulman, Secretary of the Nortn 

 Charterland Exploration Company, Ltd., wr j tes June 13, that 

 the company -will be very glad to assist us in obtaining 

 native seeds from Northeastern Rhodesia. 



o'BERIA. Saissansk. Mr. Frank N. Meyer writes June 1, 

 that he has reached this place, and after a trip into the 

 Icnintains, will proceed to Omsk to attend a great 

 agricultural exhibition which is to be held there. On July 4 

 Mr. Meyer writes, that on July 2 he arrived at Omsk, whence 

 he will send in the material collected in the Altai Moun- 

 tains . 



Issued August 25, 1911. 



