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"The films which you exposed at Talent have 
been received, but the prints have not yet ar- 
rived. I am sorry to say that these are so small 
that they do not make much of an impression upon 
me. I hope sincerely that you are not going to 
use this small camera extensively in your work 
this year in China, for the demand now is almost 
entirely for larger photographs even than was 
the case when you left us and, as I have often 
said in my letters, you cannot do anything which 
will please us more than to get large sixed 
photographs of the material which you collect. 
I have just been going over a lot of our photo- 
graphs again, and it is a pity that we ever went 
in for the small pht o graph s , for we cannot in 
the future use them in any such proportion as we 
can the larger ones." 
In his letter of Hovember 16, 1916, from Peking, Mr. Meyer 
commented as follows on Mr. Fairchild's letter of September 
29, 1916: 
••As regards Prof. Reimer's work, whether 
the same results concerning immunity will be 
obtained everywhere, no, I personally do not 
quite think so, but so far as the pear grow - 
i ng sections of the Pacific Coast, are involved . 
I believe that his experiments will prove to 
^® j'ftg main g^ uide for fruit growers to go by. 
His work will have to be duplicated in other 
sections of the United States and, possibly, 
in the moist er east, some species now immune 
in southern Oregon may show to be more or less 
susceptible to blight. But that is again an- 
other question. The sooner the American people 
realize that one kind of a product cannot be 
grown everywhere and under all sorts of con- 
ditions, the better it will be. Locally adapted 
varieties of plants will become the slogan in the 
near future for every progressive tiller of the 
soil." 
In the same letter (November 16, 1916) Mr. Meyer wrote re 
our letter of October 3, 1916: 
December 31, 1916. 
