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be well adapted to Chile. Khere the soil is too poor for 

 f armimg this pine grows well and makes a good stand that 

 is ready for harvest in from fifteen to twenty years. Fur- 

 ther, it is self seeding which means that the planted for- 

 ests will be perpetual. We went back to the hotel and at 



Osorno. Plaza de Armas. Note modern church. 



5.30 a new man, sent by Teuber, appeared and drove us to 

 the Estacion Gen£tica which is about 9 km. out of the city. 

 There I met Jos6 Suarez (has been in the United States and 

 is a friend of Ben's) who took us all over the place. The 

 trork there is mostly with forage grasses, testing for re- 

 sistance to drouth. That night Su£rez joined us for dinner. 



Feb. 28. Started for Puerto Octay early, Teuber driving the 

 Ford 2 ton truck and we reached the Experiment Station about 

 11 AM. The trip was a bit tiring as there were no springs 

 in the seat and the road was not first class. Sr. Silva, 

 the Director, took us over the grounds where they are doing 

 much to improve the potato, working with a dozen North Amer- 

 ican varieties and many wild strains of S. tuberosum . One 

 strain from Chilo6 has tubers that are long and slender, 

 (about 8 !! x I 11 ), and have jet black skins. This particular 

 strain is of little use as food but does have a very high 

 resistance to leaf -curl and scab. I saw tubers with skins 

 that were black, violet, red, rose and white and with white 

 or yellow flesh. Thousands of seedlings resulting from 

 controlled crosses were growing in beds and these would be 

 studied and the best of them multiplied for use in breeding 

 work or for introduction into the commercial trade. 



For lunch we were taken to a small hotel right on the 

 shore of Lago LLanquihue. It was originally the summer 

 home of a wealthy Chilean but was abandoned after an unfor- 

 tunate accident took the lives of several of his guests. 

 It was first offered to the government but was not accepted. 



