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RECENT CALLERS. 
Prof. W. R. Lazenby of Ohio State University called en 
route to Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, where he will spend 
the winter. While in these countries he will also collect 
such information and specimens for this Office as he can 
without interfering with his own plans. Requests for investi- 
gations along special lines and collections of special 
materials may be made through this Office. 
Messrs. V. Kotchetkoff of the Department of Agriculture, 
Moscow, and D. Roodzinski, Director of the Selection Station 
of the Moscow Agricultural Institute, spent several days 
recently in a study of the work of this Bureau and especially 
of the work of Arlington Farm as an introduction to a six 
months' investigation of agricultural methods and conditions 
in the United States. 
Mr. G. Weidman G-roff of Canton Christian College, 
called July 10, to report on a recent trip he made across one 
of the less known provinces of southern China, that of Xwong 
Si. Many interesting fruits and vegetables were reported, 
and notes given us on the various crops grown. Much informa- 
tion was received on the general agricultural conditions of 
the southern provinces, where there seems to be a promise of 
a general movement in advance along agricultural lines. 
Mr. William W. Masterson, American Consul at Harput, 
Turkey in Asia, in conversation July 10, called attention to 
several interesting fruits of that portion of Armenia and 
gave us the names of a number of new men recommended as 
possible correspondents. Among the interesting importations 
sent us by Consul Masterson in the past are the oleasters, 
or Trebizond dates, watermelons of tremendous size, and 
unusually fine apricots. 
Issued September 12, 1911. 
