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California and in the Lower Colorado and Rio Grande ValleyB, where irrigation 

 is practicable ; that it is exceedingly doubtful whether it could be raised in the 

 G-ulf States ; that there may be a possibility of this being accomplished through 

 careful experiment and persistent effort, having a view to the discovery of a 

 method of cultivation adapted to the climate or to the production of a hardier 

 variety, as was done in Russia in the case of wheat ; that the importance of the 

 matter, viewed in relation not only to the aggregate cost of importations into 

 the United States, but considered also as one of the most profitable branches 

 of agriculture, which it certainly is, would justify almost any outlay necessary 

 to test the question systematically and thoroughly. 



Willis Weateb. 



Booou, October 18, 1879. 

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