UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY 
WASHINGTON 
T INTRODUCTION 
Jan* 5, 1922. 
Mr. J. F. Hock, 
Agricultural Bxplorer, 
o7o British-American Tobacco Company, 
Yurxnanfu, China. 
Dear Mr. Hock: 
Doctor Taylor has just sent me the enclosed, 
complimentary letter in connection with your letter 
of Hovember 4th from Singapore, a copy of which I 
sent him. Make a mental note of his desire for cold 
enduring and early maturing types of sugar cane. As 
you have spent so many years in the Hawaiian Islands, 
I have confidence that you will be on the lookout for 
these anyway, although you may not realize how big a 
factor they might play in the Louisiana sugar industry 
This Louisiana sugar industry could never, of course, 
be a rival to the Hawaiian, so that no question of 
loyalty to your old friends in Hawaii could ever come 
up. 
In regard to your reimbursement for the Florida 
expenses, a check for your Florida expenses, f80.87, 
in Hew York 
was mailed to you August 19 by special delivery, but 
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you left before it reached there. It was returned to 
