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ago and spreads much as in Texas. The trunks however are much 
larger, the largest "being four times as "big as any I ever saw in 
the States, the trunks two feet in diameter and 60 feet or more 
tall. They produce two crops of pods a year which after falling 
are gathered at a cost of $8.50 a ton! It is claimed that "by 
grinding, which makes the seeds digestible, the feeding value 
increases $10 per ton at a cost of $5. In a general way the feed 
value is said to he ahout equal to "barley - a matter which I 
think needs more careful study. Horses and cows can he fed it al- 
most with impunity. There is net a single carob at Honolulu, 
therefore no comparison is possible, but as the mesquite succeeds 
so well, it seems to me the carob ought to also. At any rate I 
think the mesquite and the carob are likely possibilities in the 
Philippines to solve, in part at any rate, the grain ration prob- 
lem. Para grass has been grown very successfully at Honolulu for 
about seven years and the trial plots of Rhodes grass are fine. 
Both of these are away ahead of Guinea grass. Alfalfa too is 
grown successfully,- as well as cowpeas, soybeans, velvet beans 
and jack bean (Canavali). The latter is very bitter but cows can 
be taught to eat it, and it is claimed thrive upon it well." 
INDIA, United Provinces, Gonda. Rev. N. L. Hockey under 
date Jan. 30 writes that he has put the matter of the native Med- 
icagos into the hands of the Government officials of various sec- 
tions of northern India, who have promised to send the material 
as soon as possible. He : himself will send cuttings of the Doob 
grass (Cynodon dactylon) as soon as he can obtain them. 
JAPAN, Sapporo. Mr, K. Hashimoto writes that he will secure 
seed of the Aomori chestnut for us in the coming autumn. 
NATAL, Pietermaritzburg. Mr. W. J. Newberry, Curator of the 
Botanic Society at that place, in a recent undated letter, offers 
us a subtropical apple of ; good quality locally known as the Wain- 
wright and will also send; us cuttings of the Methlen plum in June 
when the trees are in their dormant stage. 
NYASALAND, Zomba. Mr. E. W. Davy, Agriculturist, writes 
December 28, 1910, that he does not know Cassia bearama, nor was 
he able _to find it in a trip just completed around the southern 
end of Lake Nyasa, but he thinks it more likely to be found in 
the coastal belt, and has therefore written Professor Zimmerman, 
at Amani, Tanga, German East Africa Protectorate, asking him to 
send us the seeds of this plant if procurable in his region. Mr. 
Davy is leaving for England shortly on leave of absence. 
PORTUGAL, Lisbon. Mr. C. H. de Navel, Inspector of the Lis- 
bon Botanical Garden, writes February 9 that he will secure for 
us the acorns of Quercus occidentalis (cork-oak) the coming sea- 
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