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Schroeder writes: "Our Turkestan spring wheats are often 

 sown in the late fall or in the winter and do fairly well, 

 though our winter is rather hard. They are sown on non- 

 irrigated land and stand drought exceedingly well, better 

 than Durum. The most of our precipitation we get in the 

 spring, maximum in March, the summer and fall being ex- 

 ceedingly dry, some years without a drop of rain. So I 

 think that our spring wheats will not suit your southern 

 states, nor even your central states, Kansas for instance, 

 for they must suffer from rust in rainy summers. But in 

 California and Utah, v/here they do not have summer rains, 

 these wheats will probably be found of high value." For 

 distribution later. 



NOTES FROM CORRESPONDENTS ABROAD. 



Mr. Dorsett writes from on board S. S. "Vandyck", 

 Monday night, October 20, 1913: We are within a few 

 hours' ride of Rio. Yesterday was rainy and a high wind. 

 To-day has been even higher and our good ship has rolled 

 quite a good deal. I have enjoyed it very much. We 

 arrived in the bay of Bahia about G A. M. Saturday. It 

 was not long, about 8 A. M. , when the Port Doctor came 

 aboard. A little later officials from the city came 

 aboard to meet Colonel Roosevelt. We were advised that 

 the ship would sail at 1:00 P. M. As our time on land was 

 limited, we did not complicate matters by trying to get in 

 touch with Colonel Roosevelt's party, but secured a row- 

 boat and went ashore at once. On landing we purchased 

 stamps and mailed our letters; then called at. the office 

 of the American Consul. He was not in. I presume 

 had business helping to receive the Colonel. We tried to 

 hire an auto but all were engaged, so we secured informa- 

 tion from one of the Consul's Portuguese assistants in re- 

 gard to how to get out to a Bahia Navel Orange Orchard at 

 Cobulla. We took a street car for that place. It proved 

 to be about l or 2 miles out. On getting off the car we 

 noticed to our right the way the car was running a hill 

 several hundred feet high, upon which was an orange or- 

 chard. Prof. Hays was with us. We made a bee-line for the 

 orchard. It proved to be a good sized Bahia Navel Orc/iard, 

 and, as you can well imagine, Mr. Shamel was soon examin- 

 ing the fruit. The trees were not heavily laden with 

 fruit, but Mr. Shamel thinks there is plenty to enable us 

 to make the observations we want to make. We found blos- 

 soms, fruit just setting, fruit the size of pigeon eggs 

 and fruit just beginning to change color. Mr. Shamel 

 thinks the bulk of the crop is on in May or June. We 

 spent about two hours looking through this orchard. V/e 



