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Schroeder writes: "Our Turkestan spring wheats are often 
sown in the late fall or in the winter and do fairly well, 
though our winter is rather hard. They are sown on non- 
irrigated land and stand' drought exceedingly welly better 
than Durum. The most of our precipitation we get in the 
spring, maximum in March, the summer and fall being ex- 
ceedingly dry, some years without a drop of rain. So I 
think that our spring wheats will not suit your southern 
states, nor even your central states, Kansas for instance, 
for they must suffer from rust in rainy summers. But in 
California and Utah, where they do not have summer rains, 
these wheats will probably be found of high value." For 
distribution later. 
NOTES FROM CORRESPONDENTS ABROAD. 
Mr. Dorsett writes from on board S. S. "Vandyck", 
Monday night, October 20, 1913: We are within a few 
hours' riae of Rio. Yesterday was rainy and a high wind. 
To-day has been even higher and our good ship has rolled 
quite a good deal. I have enjoyed it very much. We 
arrived in the bay of Bahia about 6 A. M. Saturday. It 
was not long, about 8 A. M. , when the Fort Dootor came 
aboard. A little later officials from the city came 
aboard to meet Colonel Roosevelt. We were advised that 
the ship would sail at 1:00 P. M. As our time on land was 
limited, we did not complicate matters by trying to get in 
touch with Colonel Roosevelt's party, but secured a row- 
boat and went ashore at once. On landing we purchased 
stamps and mailed our letters; then called at the office 
of the American Consul. He was not in. I presume 
had business helping to receive the Colonel. We tried to 
hire an auto but all were engaged, so we secured informa- 
tion from one of the Consul's Portuguese assistants in re- 
gard to how to get out to a Bahia Navel Orange Orchard at 
Cobulla. We took a street car for that place. It proved 
to be about l£ or 2 miles out. On getting off the car we 
noticed to our right the way the car was running a hill 
several hundred feet high, upon which was an orange or- 
chard. Prof. Hays was with us. We made a bee-line for the 
orchard. It proved to be a good sized Bahia Navel Orchard > 
and, as you can well imagine, Mr. Shamel was soon examin- 
ing the fruit. The trees were not heavily laden with' 
fruit, but Mr. Shamel thinks there is plenty to enable us 
to make the observations we want to make. We found bios- 
s,oms, fruit just setting, fruit the size of pigeon eggs 
and fruit just beginning to change color. Mr. Shamel 
thinks the bulk of the crop is on in May or June. We 
spent about two hours looking through this orchard. We 
