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Notes from Correspondents. 
Jacksonville, Pla. Mr. Robert A. Young writes, 
Oct. 10: "At Pargo, Ga. , yesterday, I saw about five 
acres of dasheens, which have done very well. The 
yield will be somewhere near 1400 bushels, and the 
quality of the tubers is apparently good. The corms, 
I have not yet tested. Fargo is southeast of Valdosta, 
near the Florida line. 
"In the vicinity of Callahan and Crawford, Nassau 
Co., Fla. , (north of Jacksonville), where I s,pent 
most of yesterday, I saw about ten acres of dasheens, 
most of which were good to very good. I was told of 
5 to 6 acres more in the county that I was not able 
to see. The people are showing more practical en- 
thusiasm in the subject there than I have seen any- 
where else at any time so far. The dasheen seems to 
be the surest crop they can grow. It 'makes' well 
enough to pay to grow it, on land that Is said to be 
worthless for almost everything else. At Fargo, I saw 
five-eights of an acre of very good dasheens, right 
next to the railroad station, on land that it was 
stated had failed to raise any other crop that had 
been tried on it. (The Fargo Land Company owns about 
everything there at present.) 
"In the regions referred to, there are scores, 
if not hundreds, of thousands of acres of land just 
like that on which I saw. the dasheens growing. 
"The people near Callahan,- especially Carl 
Froitzheim, the man who has done so well with the 
dasheen under adverse conditions,- are talking of the 
great desirability of a dasheen flour mill in the 
county. 
"In Effingham County , Ga., just north of Savannah, 
there are also great areas that are said by men there 
to be just like the land at Clyo on which some fine 
dasheens were growing. 
"In southern Alabama and Mississippi -there are 
Immense areas that would grow dasheens for flour pro- 
duction and stock feed, as well as for human food in 
the fresh state. The land does not seem to be well 
adapted for most staple crops, though occasionally 
good ones are obtained. 
"In short, there are many hundreds of thousands 
of acres in a rather narrow strip of latitude, that 
it seems probable would grow dasheens better than any- 
thing else of value . " 
