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are essential to any diet for hiiman beings. It 
has been reported to him by certain travellers 
that the Chinese diet is essentially a seed one. 
It is my impression from your investigations and 
from my ovm observations that the Chinese are 
great users of fresh vegetables, particularly 
.leafy vegetables. Could you not make a study of 
the diets of the Chinese where you are and send 
us representative menus, so to speak, which will 
clear'up this doubt in the minds of dieticians in 
America^ in regard to the proportion of green 
vegetables which are used by the Chinese? 
The dairy industry in America appears to be 
in somewhat of a critical stage, ov/ing to the ex- 
tremely high price of food stuffs from which the 
cattle get their vegetable fats which they manu- 
facture into butter fats. Inasmuch as the Chinese 
do not have a dairy industry, can you not give us 
a report of your wide observations in regard to 
the substitutes used by the Chinese for dairy 
products? I assume that these are in theVnain the 
products of the soy bean and that they furnish 
the principal source for fats and proteins. The 
excellent photographs which you took of the soy 
bean industry, particularly the cheese and curd 
manufactures, have been very useful indeed. I 
have shown them to some of the most important 
people in this country who are studying the sub- 
ject, and T cannot help feeling that at- the' present 
time photographs along this line v/ill be of unusual 
interest to the American public. 
I realize that it is very difficult indeed to 
give you much of an idea of the situation here in 
America in regard to this whole question of what 
we are going to eat, but be assured, my dear Mr. 
Meyer, that people are asking this question with 
an insistence that I never dreamed would come. 
In regard to the Peitcheng peach, you will 
be interested in the following statement from 
Tribble Brothers, Elk Grove, Calif., which will 
appear in the next number of our Plant Immigrant 
bulletin: 
P1989. Fei tao seedling peach, four 
trees. Each tree bore identically the 
same fruit. Fruit averaged 1 pound each. 
Tree good grov/er and shows that it will 
bear heavily. This is the finest white 
neach we have ever seen. It is' far super- 
September ?1, 1918. 
