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seek "fresh fields to conquer" and to lay new tributes upon 

 the altar of commerce. The earliest record of the importa- 

 tion of animals of commercial importance from one country 

 to another is the story of the Chinese princess, who, defying 

 imperial edicts for love of her betrothed, brought some eggs 



THE QUARTER-ACRE BAMBOO GROVE AT THE C. J. EDWARDS PLACE 

 Near Abbeville, Louisiana. Planted in 1898, in 1915 it produced 

 over 200 large shoots. 



Courtesy of the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry. 



of the silkworm over the mountains to her Indian lover, while 

 in the days of Justinian silkworms were brought to Con- 

 stantinople by Persian priests, who concealed the eggs of the 

 moth in hollow canes. 



America is a great experiment station for the breeding of 

 new animals and plants, where the ''stranger within our 



