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As regards finding recipes for drying and 
pickling of fruits and vegetables, I suggest 
to have one of the many Woman's Clubs in America 
to go thru old-country cook books; gardening 
and farming papers and similar publications. 
They may find lots of things which the present 
generation has never heard of. 
The discovery of Dr. Lippmann that the var. 
of organism in the nodules on the roots of the 
soy bean has a whole lot to do with the amount 
of protein in the bean is of extreme interest, 
but, why is it then that one can, by selection, 
increase the amount of protein also? I'll try 
to collect some samples of soil, however, and 
some bean roots. For the making of bean-curd 
apparently only yellow arid greenish- yellow 
varieties of soy beans are used. I never heard 
as yet that other kinds were employed] 
Letter of June P?, I917 (the last of the 
lot). Yes, I received the cablegram all right: 
Reimer sails July IP Nippon Maru. Cooperate fully. 
The American Consul-General at Shanghai, 
Mr. Thomas Sammons, forwarded it by letter to me 
thru the Consul here. I have written Prof. Rei- 
mer a letter of welcome to the Par East and T 
think v/e will meet here somewhere. 
Thank you for these copies of correspondence 
v;ith him; they are giving me a pretty good idea 
of the trend of this whole affair. Prof. Reimer 
is apparently afraid that we will not supply him 
with enough seed. Well, to give all of the nur- 
serymen in the United i^tates seeds enough to 
supply blight-resistant stocks is some problem. 
I would not be a bit surprised if some enter- 
prising fellows are going to come out to China 
to collect large quantities of these wild pear 
seeds. Of course then it gets out of our snhere 
of work, altho with Amygdalus davidiana and with 
.ju.iubes our office has done a whole lot of plain 
nursery work. 
Prof. Reimer has not cabled me yet but he 
surely will write me some details of his plans 
and we can see then how we can cooperate. T am 
not going to leave central China until I have at 
least 100 lbs. of clean seeds of this Pyrusj cal - 
leryana and he can collect a lot of seed of P. 
ussuriensis at Shing lung shan in cooperation 
with Mr. J. C. Huston, altho the last seems to 
have been given notice to leave for a post as 
Vice-Consul at Nanking. I have written him, con- 
cerning this rumor, but^have not received any 
December 31, 1917. 
