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This tin of cheese v/as received on March ''?, 1917. and ac- 
knowledged iDy Mr. Dorsett in his letter of March 2(i, 1917. 
It was held for Mr. Fairohild, who mentions it as 'f olltrwB 
in his letter of July 5. 1917, to Mr. Meyer: • 
fith regard to your hean cheese, it 
still keeps and every once in a while is 
served. We had the package opened up and 
divided into small iDottles, and these are 
stored in the ice chest. Menderson is us- 
ing some of the cheese to inoculate his 
bean cheeses with. 
In his letter of September 8, 1917, Mr. Meyer commented as 
follows on the above: 
I am quite pleased to hear in your letter 
of July 5, IQI7, that my soy bean-cheese samples 
have really created so much interest. Mr; Men- 
derson wrote me a long letter on this problem; 
I cannot give him, hov/ever, much more inform- 
ation than what I wrote in my report to Mr, 
* Morse and on the photos. — Beancurd and bean- 
milk alvays taste beany !— The cheese, however, • 
has lost this unpleasant characteristic. If 
soft beancurd is beaten up v/ith sugar, it also 
improves much in flavor. 
On February ??, I917, from Peking, Mr. Meyer wrote trans- 
mitting one small package, marked XXVI, containing seeds 
bearing Nos. ?383a and ?384a, Amaranthus spp. These were 
received on April 14, I917, and given SPI Nos, 44^66 and 
44567. These were divided between Mr. W, S. Safford, of 
this Bureau, and Prof. I, D, Cardiff, Director of the Ag- 
ricultural Experiment Station, Pullman, Wash. Mr, Meyer's 
letter of February 2?, 1917, continues: 
December 31, 1917. 
