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many robber-bands there are there. Then these 
terrific floods in the valley of the Yellow 
River and the North River; there surely will 
be famine here this v/inter in many districts. 
And now China has given permission to 
export all of the rice and grains that the 
Allies are able to get out of China. This 
means that speculators will transfer all. these 
foodstuffs to some of the ports and hold them 
there awaiting favorable opportunities. What 
this means here in this land the future only 
can tell, but — it forebodes illl 
Then I ara enclosing a clipping from the 
Am. Florist on Chinese cabbage, which Mr. Stuntz 
sent me, but which I thinic important enough to 
be filed. To grow pai ts'ai in greenhouses is 
' indeed v/ell worth trying on a big scale. 
Then I was informed that the Chinese here 
and there make a curd from ground acorns, which 
is eaten by the people. --It seems that especial- 
ly acorns of Q,uercu s serrata are used. Is there 
anybody interested in making new foods out of 
acorns, horse-chestnuts and buckeyes? 
Under date of October 27, 1917, 3)r. Galloway wrote Mr. Meyer 
the following interesting letter: 
Dear Priend Meyer: 
I have Just read your last letter to Mr. 
Pairchild '. 
We are just cleaning up the last shipment 
you sent in — the big box with soy beans, rice, 
bean cheese, bean curds, mustard seed, ento- 
mological and pathological specimens, etc. 
This shipment was somewhat difficult to handle 
on account of the large ntimber of small lots. 
The box was a long time on the road and had 
evidently been shifted about in many and devious 
places before it reached us. Shipping conditions 
are so very unsatisfactory now that it is quite 
remarkable that we are having so little trouble 
as we are actually experiencing. There is one 
fact in connection v/ith shipping which is of in- 
terest, and that is, direct traffic has now been 
established betv/een Java and the Pacific coast, 
so that we are in a position to get material 
more readily from Java than ever before. 
.y'^ All the material in the box has finally been 
passed upon by the various inst)ectors and it v/ill 
December 31, I917. 
