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THE SUNDXY' 'WASHINGTON, D. U, FEBRfi'ARY 26, 1922—PART 4. ' 'OMANCE and Bravery in Exploits of Uncle Sam’s Corps of Agricultural Ex- perts, Who Have Delved Into All Corners of the World in Past Twenty-five Years—Through Jungles, Across the Deserts and Even Fights With Elephants and Tigers to Obtain Improved Varieties of Grain, Forage, Fruits and Vegetables—One Explorer Who Spent Years in China—Stories From a Diary—A Trip Into Africa. How the Valuable Plants and Seeds Are Prepared and Sént to the United States. years ago reports on his observations during these travels were printed and became a handbook for improving food supplies over practically two- thirds of the world. His entire life has been devoted to this work for the United States govern- ment, and as a result of his personal service many plant immigrants have been given permanent citisenship hers and have become valuable members of the great crop census, adding hundreds of millions of dollars to the food supply. He s seeing his ambition fulfilled, and probably no better description of this work can be found than that which he gave more than a decade ago: *x 8% ¢rTO change, in & measure, the dls- tribution of the really useful plants of the world is what the of- fice of foreign seed and plant intro- duction Is trying to do. The motive underlying this work might be called the ambition to make the world more babitable. If one is inclined to be pessimistic with regard to the food supply of the werld, he has only to talk with any one of the enthusiasts of the Department of Agriculture to got a pictyre of the widening vista of agricultural possibilities which would make him realize that the food problems of the race are not hung in grown In California and Florida. The 9,000-mile trip through Africa, from which Dr. H. L. Shantz has just returned bringing back many species of native plants not previously grown in the United States, but which the experts of the Department of Agri- culture feel certain will prove suita- ble for development in this country, is an excellent illustration of Uncle Sam’s agrioultural exploration expe- ditions. trip was to study the native agricul- plants, forage crops (especlally those adapted for our south and west), new sorghums, and particularly wild sor- ghum grasses of type similar to Su- dan grass, which has proved such an important forage crop in the semi- arid districts of the western part of the United States that $10,000,000 worth of it was grown last vear. He sailed with & Smithsonian party from New York. July 16, 1919, directly to of Africa, and from there to Cape Town, where they arrived August 13. From there the journey of nearly 9.000 miles was made almost entirely through the heart of Africa, some- times 1,000 miles inland, with occa- /G HIM PACKING AVOCADO CUTTINGS IN GUATEMALA. P —————————————————————————————————————————— NTO the outlands of the world. |ern North America than are plants|ine balance of our great plains area, gleaning from the acreage of yes- | from Europe. Eastérn China and the|ang that the food-producing power terday for that of tomorrow; cut- | eastern part of the United States, for [ of the world is still practically un- ™ ting their way through the jun-|example, are the only two regions in|known, becsuse we have just begun gles of India and penetrating Dark- | the world where sassafras and hick-|¢o study in a modern way the rela- est Africa, fighting elephants and ti- | ory trees and the tullp tree occur wild. | tive performance of the different gers, trudging through the sands of As a result of tne self-sacrificing. | plants. centuries in China and seared by the | true explorer spirit of these agricul-| «we may not always grow the tropical sun, & dauntless band of ag- | tural scouts, more than 51,000 selected | plants we do now. Some of them are ricultural explorers for Uncle Sam |varieties of seeds and plants have|expensive food producers, some pro- have delved, during the last quarter |been Introduced into the United|duce foods that are difficult to digest, of & century, into all the corners of | States. Several hundred thousand|and some we may leave behind as we the globe, hunting for some strango | Plants are sent out free each year to|learn to like others better. seeds and strains of plant life that|qualified experimenters all over the| “To help find the plant which will would give this country new food |country. These include fruits of all|produce the best results of any that “It is one thing to start out with a crops, or improved varieties of grains, | kinds. They are now concentrating|can be grown, on every:acre of land |1 of credit and carte blanche to forage, frults and vegetablea. on avacados, or aligator pears, and|in the United States, is in general the [ travel the ordinary routes of the There is the romance of far places | Japanese persimmons; oriental timber | broad policy of our office. It may be | world, but it is quite another to z: and strange peoples, primitive iife, | Pamboos are growing In the south,|new to many that every day plant|into the wilds of a strange land fl: brawn and daring, heroic escapades,|the dasheen is a valuable root crop, | immigrants from different parts of | poke around through the back y:; : the conquering of nature in her wild- | something on the order of potatoes;|the world arrive in ‘Washington, and |of people who cannot understand whas est forms and wresting her secrets, |the chayote is & squashlike vegetable|every day, through the malls, hun-|you wre doing and are naturally sus- the adding of something worth mil- valuable for food, from South Amer-|dreds of these disinfected arrivals go | picious of yow,” he says. The:x he liens o the sum total of American |ica; they have brought in a large|out to find & new home in some part|suggests that one of the big hln‘d u:: productive wealth—that puts color | humber of forage crops from all over|of the country.” is right here in Washington, b“the and zest Into the panoramic life of the world, Including Sudan grass and| Today there are giant Bambeo for- | adds—'and then be required by o these intrepid men, against the drab | Rhodes grass from Africa. They also]ests in California and the south. The | great Treasury Department of the background of small salaries they re- have secured a large variety of mi first bamboo cuttings were shipped in | great government you are traveling 2 'm,_h ent service. terial for plant breeders—all sorts of | from China by Dr. Fairchild twenty- | for to get & receipt in writing for ostveiin “0‘“:‘“1 *® 2 wild cherries, wild plums and wild |[five years ago. et every penny expended. What the citrus fruits. Take, again, the mango, which is PBUT the most cold-type, matter-ofs| “g "y oo orthy plant introduc- | already an important crop in Florida. fact, prosalc. statement of this| o, py these explorers are (with the | Tnis is one of the most lmportant|paper. lke Chinese laundry ohecks, work |s inspiring. Exactly twenty-| .., ;5 1919): - Japanese rices, $21. | truits in the world. In ndis it is 80| that Meyer sent in, I do not know, Bye years ago Dr. David Fairchild, | 455 99; qurum wheat, $50,000,000; fet- | valuable 83 to be keld and 0| but I can see Meyer now, after years - who is now agricaltural explorer In} .., “$16000,000; Egypttan cotton,|deserve annual celebrations and cere- | of exploration, begsing with tears in of the office of forelgn seed | 400 640,000; Japanese sugar cane, $3,- | montals. In India the mango 18 propa- | nis eyes to be released from the and plant introduction, bureau of|,g9009, and Sudan grass, $10,000,000. ['gated by an expensive method of in-| ridiculous red tape that added so Mmat (Iduatil Do Al * k% % rohing, and the only way that Dr.|eporomusly to the burdens of his culture, concsived the idea of organ- Fairchild was able to get the early | iraveis” ising & federal government service BUT these hunters of plants, who plants_for trial in Florida was by for the systematic introduction into ‘have given so much to the expanding importing them in pots. As showin, the United States of new plants that | future of their nation, get little in. the how American genius Bas carried can be utilised In American farming|way of public recognition for the signal| ,1onge the work of the agricultural and other infustries. Through agri- (gervice they render civilization. The |, niorers, it may be moted that a cpltural explorers, colaborators and |plant hunter is the unsung Columbus of | 1 ida nurseryman named Cellon of correspondents In forelgn countries,| horticulture. No new-found land or|pygmi first learned how o bud the this service seeks new aseeds and |hitherto uncharted ses bears his name. mango and found it almost as easy plants for the purpose of improving|But through his daring and fortitude|,, 1 as the peach. This proved an(of the traveler and breathing the = important step and led to much easler | spirit of loneliness. He wrote not distribution of the best varieties. only as & sclentist, but as a real trav- Some fifteen years ago Dr. Fairchild | eler, ploturing strange civilizations. wrote to Sir Augustine Henry, recog-{ There were headlines in every sen- nized as the great student of Chinese | tence, such as “Left Alone in Turk- botany, asking how the United States | egtan”; he describes the “camel's could tap that tremendous reservoir |thorn in the desert™; he gathered of plant life, and got the reply: eds from the pistachia tree that “Don’t waste time and postage; send | grows over the sepulcher of Confu- a mant™ clus; he tells of finding the famous Peking pear; he scaled a perilous mountain near Fang-shan to gather speciments from an old imperial heard t! a boy | tombd; he bought cucumbers at 50 cents ::;:r :'mm:nkea :u:. :n:. Alps T | each in China; he fell in love with & | acknowledged to be the largest berry | County White, a gift from Amerioa seo the orange sroves of Italy. Hav- | white-barked pine three centuries 0ld, | in the world yet discovered. A sin- |Of considerable value to the farmers ing been in China himself as an ex- | near Peking; raved over the primeval | gle fruit is 3% inches long by 1% [of the Transvaal plorer, and knowing that there were | forests of Korea; complained of ver- | inches in diameter. The route then lay to the seacoast 10 roads in the empire, Dr. Fiirohild | itable bedlam in a Chinese inn, and| The Andean %therry, a large, sweet, |0f Lourenco Marques and by ocean realized that he must get & good |found himself “cut off from commu- |cherry, which grows in parts of this |Steamer to Beira. Dr. Shants arranged walker, The first thing Meyer-did on | nication with the world.” country where other cherries cannot [ With the agriculturist there to get coming to Washington was to hike| But Meyer gave to this land of his | be cuitivated. some desirable East African mangoes, down to Mount Vernon. He walked |adoption a host of lasting, living,| The tree dshlia of Guatemala,|Which the department has wanted for through Cuba. He walked a thousand | srowing, multiplying, beneficent gifts, | which grows 18 feet high and bears |some years. He then traveled over miles or so In Mexico. He tramped | altogether too numerous to mention. | pink flowers 5 inches in diameter. |the highlands of Portuguese East through California, and he trudged | To New England he gave the hardlest| The Andes berry, which is like a|Africa, which have been developed with eager fest for nine long years|of yellow bush roses; over the bleak | raspberry in growth and has fruit|by the Mozarbique Company into through the far east. plains of the Dakotas are growing |like the blackberry, of & very fine|one of the most important egricul- Meyer was a Hollander by Dbirth, | s Chinese elms, and stretching over | quality. tural sections of East Africa He and his childhood was spent among | the country from Florida to the Ca- A dwarf orange from Chile. then proceeded across southern the gardens of Amsterdant Through | nadian border; Nevada has adopted| The pacayito, a beautiful dwart|Rhodesia to Bulowayo and Victoria Rhis own talent he rose to be assistant | hs ash from Kashgar; in California |palm from Guatemala, excdllent for |Falls. At the latter point many of to the great Hugo de Vries. His pas-the earliest cherries are his Tangsi, , house culture. the fruits concerning which Living- sion for travel led him to explore the |and the peach orchardists of that| And the ‘pejibaye, a Costa Rican|stone, wrote. enthusiastically. were Mediterranean groves and vineyards, | state bless him daily for the drought | palm, which produces huge quanti-|found and tested and the seeds sent then America and Mexico. He worked | and alkall resistant root systems he | ties of fruits the size of apricots, and|to the department. in the greenhouses of the Department | imported from China, which have pro- | resembling chestnuts in character| Dr. Shants spent ten days there and of Agriculture, on private estates, in | duced the best canning peaches on |and flavor. This will probably be of|a month at Kafue, & little farther the nyrseries of Califorpia, in the|the market. Adorning the banks of | great value for our tropical colonies|morth in northern Rhodesia, where Missour{ Botanical Garden, always|Rock Cresk Park are globular-headed | or dependencies. 2 delay was caused by the sickness of showing such love and understanding | willows he brought from overseas; * k% % two members of the party. At this of plants as some men have for horses | oregon and other pear-producing | TWURING his travels Mr. Popenoe has| Point word was received of a railway 10kl it 5,000 miles on|Yreck on the Kongo railway in which WILSON POPENOE, SHOWIN observations of Zanzibar and other islands, and at Lourenzo Markues ana Beira. * % * % MUC‘B of the country which Liv- THE LATE FRANK N. MEYER, PLANT EXPLORER EXTRAORDINARY, ingstone painfully traveled, some- WHO SPENT MANY YEARS IN SEARCHING CHINA FOR NEW PLANTS, |thing more than half a century ago. will through the vears enjoy the im- |SOmPparative comfort, on the South proved quality of the commercial|African ratlway. There are still fast- under which the explorers who have gone out from his office have had to encounter. the mental and physical sufferings|2WaY from any railway and often endured by Wilson Popence, agri- cultural explorer, in thus enriching roads were unknown, the imagination as when first con- has been traveling through tropical America, and for the last seven or|Coved in the mind of the South eight years principally on the trafl Steamer, many of them primitive transportation systems, where the he has studled and brought Into the United States a number of other use- ful plants obtalned during his ex-|yiding himself with bed, shelter and cursions in Central and South Amer- | food, and even the wood with which ica. He has visited all but two or{ to cook it thres of the countries between Wash- The expedition has given to the the hundreds of acraps of yellow |mostly In the Andes and Guatemala.|intimate knowledge of the agri- ® ¥ X ¥ THE letters of Meyer, written as he sat in the century-drifted sands of the far east, and in the atmosphere of its mysticism, intrigues and sus- picions, are bits of the realest ro- mance, graphically telling the trials ty-three varfeties of the avocado, several of which are being planted extensively in this country. To get these he had to visit small Indian towns in the mountains of the in- terior and exagpine the trees grow- ing in the door-yards of these people. ‘When a good variety was found, cut- tings were taken from the tree, packed in damp moss and then car- ried down to the coast, to be for- warded by steamer to the United States. Here in Washington these cuttings were grafted on young seedling plants and thus established in this country, to be sent later to California and Florida, where they are now bearing fruit. il which had not previousix been im- from which it is only reasonable to or fruit crops may be developed. through the Kimberley diamond reglo hannesburg and Pretoria, the govern- ment headquarters of Union South Africa. There Dr. Shantz visited the agricultural department for a com- parison of notes on the agriculture of the two continents and to arrange a mutual exthange of plants. *x®x FRAN’K N. MEYER was sent, and he was chosen by Dr. Fairchild be- most interesting plants he obtained great Transvaal agricultural arca, from the mountains of South Ameri- |80d there corn, known as mealles, is ca are the following: the chlef crop. One of the most im- The giant blackberry of Colombia, |POTtant varieties is our own Boone and dogs. It was his flalr for New | gtates now feel .immune from fire- things that made him acoept the Pro- | byght because of his hardy Ussurian muleback, usually with only an In-|tWO members of the original party posal to foot it along the non-exist- | pear; orohards of plum-sized jujubes | dian companion, and lived in the huts| Wers killed and two injured and of the natives. He tells this story|forced to return to America. This ent roads of China. This servics a8 |, California, escaping the spring characteristic of the primitive life|D®Ws, coupled with the sickness in frosts, promise fortunes; from China he brought in a substitute for the|among the Indians of the back coun-|°3MmP, Was the darkest part of the try of Guatemala: One day he broke | *riP and threatened to terminate the fast disappearing American chestnut; —_— | Meyor explored the plant llfe of|,; ymproved strain of spinach has|down on the trall. His mule went|expedition so far as Central Africa China and Siberia and Turkestan and lame and he stopped at a small Indian | Wa8 concerned. - been grown from seed Meyer gathered isting crop industries and develop-]and his vision the waste places of his|in the Caucasus. His first expedition, o aew ones. in this country, In|home land are made to smile and bear |1905-1303, was North China, Manchurla In ManChUTIS, @ out uddenty, puc| TIE%, THOTS he asked tho aicalds,[ Continulng through the Kongo. @ co-operation with the federal horti- |their share of the human load. He hisjsecond. 1900 1 S e e e | o Head man. for hospltality &1 fod- e o S oo tlare cultural board, it serves as & medium | helps to feed thousands today and mil-| 1911. through the Caucasus, Russian | [ *C250R 0© 108 1 Ve ""':::a;‘:l;: i practicalls a0 Notsls analnoisros for the protection of our crop indus- | llons tomorrow. Turkestan, Chiness Turkestan and oo through the exclusion of dan.| Ome other polnt must be stressed— | Siberia: his third, 1913.1915, through | futur® e e et psteneftorftont] fos tratelers wers gerous foreign insects and plant dis- | these agricultural explorers have & task | northwestern China into the Kansu[eXpiorations an inspiration to :; Sugh L0 eomal Sselicin esses. It conducts researches, tests|decidedly different from that of the|province to the borders of Tibet, and | Others, and & medal of honor which|mules. In the morning, when leaving, | caPtains on the ships on the Kongo and experiments in the propagation [botanical explorer, who collects for a|his last began in 1916 into the region his associates had struck off with a|Mr. Popence wanted to show his were kind enough to allow the travel- 2ad utilisation of the new plant im- | museum and is only looking for species | of Jehol, north of Peking and the|Pequest he made to them. will be|preciation of the courtesies, and, know- | €rs to mess with them, and um migrants. These fleld stations with | that are new, never befors collected, and | region arcund Ichang. He was awarded each year. The first to re-|ing what he could best do, he made [Pbints grass huts had been pr scientific dtaffs are located at Chico, Diaces his finds in the herbaria of|drowned in the muddy waters of the [0%1V® it Was Barbour Lathrop, whose | the slcalde & present of an empty tin |88 temporary quarters for travelers. Calif;; Miami, ¥ia ; Bellingham, Wash.; | dried specimens. The agricultural ex-| Yangtse river July 3, 1919, after nine | distinEuisbed personal services and|can. The latter was altogether|This section was particularly in- Breoksville, Fla., and Savannah, Ga. plorer’s work will live and enrich the|of the most picturesque years ims|financial generosity led to the inaus-|pleased and very prafuse in his) teresting to the agricultural explorer Dr. Fairchild emphasizes that a|world long after he is gone. sginable—spent in dense forests of|uration of the government work of|thanks. They hardly know what a|bdcause of the immense number of eountry cannot transfer its mines or| David Fairohild, agricultural ex-|northern Korea, in Chinese temples plant introduction and the establish- | tin can is in that country and use them | wild sorghum grasses which were its tndustries or its climate, but it can|plorer, and now in charge of the ex-|Perched on distant sacred mountains |ment of the office bearing that name. | as household utensils. found all along the line, well as sometimes share the wealth of its|ploration activities of the Department|and in wandering through the or- It was with Mr. Lathrop that Dr.| The value not only to fruit growers | interesting vegetable and food plants flora. In giving but a handful of |of Agriculture, began his world search | chards, gardens and cultivated flelds Fairchild first set out on his agri- |of this country, but to horticulturists |used by the natives, well as their seeds; it may bestow s priceless|for new food crops and better strains|Of that vast orlental country—which | cultural explorations, the results of | throughout the world of Mr. Pope- |rather unique methods of agriculture. source of food supply for millions of {a quarter of a century ago, traveling|!S coming out of the sleep of ages to which are spread all over the United |noe’s inoursions into tropical America | From hére Dr. Shants proceeded to people. China, which has come to be | with Barbour Lathrop of Chicago, wha |a commanding place in the world's States. l_- shown in.a book published last|Lake Tanganyika by way of Alberts- known among botanists as “the Klon- | has long been co-operating with the | future. g 2 S Jear, of which he is author, entifled | ville. This was interesting country . dike of plant-gold,” is a notable illus-|department. He studied the plant life| Having done preliminary exploration FIW of tite thousands'in this coun- | “Manual of Tropical and Sub-Tropical | because here wae located Ujl, where tration of thiz. Our agriculturists|in the British West Indies, Philippine | work himself, Dr. Fairchild has had try who are aoquiring a fond-|Fruits.” This is the first book of its|Stanley found Livingstone, and & few Bave proved that Chinese plants are|Islands, Spain, Chins, Japan, Indis and | a keen appreciation of and sympathy {ness for the avocado, or alligator pear, | kind published in any languags, cov- a successful plant hunter ocovered thirteen years, nine of which were DR. H, I» SHANTEZ, A DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE EXPERT, IN | gpent in the fleld. AFRICA. der for his animals. He was put up in the cabildo, or city hall, and the alcalde had his men bring in large bundles of dried grass for the two miles north Kigoma, the terminus of the railway line leading from the uses of more than 100 species of tropical fruits, many of which can be The principal purpose of Dr. Shants's ture with &n eye for new fruits, not sional expeditions to the coast for is now open to the traveler, with blackberry and other fruits, will ever |1€38e8 however, where the party was know. or appreciate the trouble and[CoMPelled to go 700 or 800 miles the Cape Verde Islands, off the coas! WORK IN THE FIELD, African developer, Cecil Rhodes. The |ket. | of the avocado. But along with this long stretches were covered by| Returning to mainland at Tanga, Dr.|jowed the Khodan stream, a tribu- Treasury Department gathered from|ington and Cape Horn, working|Department of Agriculture a rather He has just returned to this country. | culture, not only of the white but of The chief aim of his work has been | the native tribes of the regions to bring to life here the finest quall- [ visited. Many of the practices thers ties of the avocado and obtain plants | observed will doubtless prove help- for our horticulturists In California [ful in connection with practice in and Florida when the plants succeed. | this country. The direct tangible|varieties of tropical crops grown by the He spent more than two years in|result consists of seed or living ma-~ | natives in this section were secured. Dr. Guatemala, where he obtained twen- | terial of more than’1,600 different|Shants also secured a notable nut plant specles or varieties of plants, many of | called telfaeria, which forms a large| <January 24, 1 v | Besides the avocado some of the Tms section is the center of the DR. DAVID FAIRCHILD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, AT Indlan ocean at Dar-es-Salam. There | specimens sent or brought back. The were found the finest mangoes yet |1i £ plant material is now growing in encountered, fruits of unusual size | the various plant introduction gardens and flavor, as well as many interest- Of the department preparatory to being Ing types of beans, castor beans, cas- | distributed later to experiment stations sava (taploca) and many wild grasses land special experimenters which may prove to be of forage value | Parts of the country. in the southern parts of the L'nnedi * % ¥ States. in different HAT all the world has not been At ‘Tabora, known as the home | subjugated by the refinements of of the mangoes, wonderful trees and | ciyilization and that thers are yet fruits were found. At Dar-es-Salam the | plzces where man can live only by: coconut palm 1s one of the most im- physical fighting for life and that the portant crops and has been planted on | most primitive peoples are aiding us the sandy lands which extend for many | iy our most modern progress is strik- miles back from the coast. In Zanzibar, | jngly illustrated in & few pages from principally noted for the production of the diary of J. F. Rock, written in cloves and for the extensive groves of | 4. heart of the Burmese jungle of coconut palms and many tropical and | 1ne northwest. Mr. Rock is now in through the jungle, where improved | subtropical plants, Dr. Shantz obtained | washinston preparing for another and sent home seeds and plants of & 'Jong hike beyond the borders of American horticulture, The Cape to Cairo road is still to|number of important fruits, and ‘“‘”’]m\'lllzallom For nearly ten years Mr. Popenoe & large extent as much a creatute of | many of the staple grains, and legumes “January 22, 1921.—For four days grown in various parts of the east coast | 1 have roamed the forests in sec ch of Africa and sold on the Zanzibar mar- | of ripe fruits of hydnocarpus kurzil, | but in vain until now. 1 have fol- Shants proceeded across German East|tary of the upper Chindwin river, for Africa to near Kilimanjairo. one of tae | ahout sixty miles, and at present I at the base of which Is a very rich agrl- | jungle ts so dense that it is impos- traveler merely bought passage, pro- | most wonderful mountains in the world. | am eamping in a jungle village. The cultural country. There are great planta-, siple to penetrate far, but by fol- tions of sisal, rubber, coffee and many | Jowing sandy streambeds, which are much help was secured from the local | slopes are *clothed with this tree, made into the desert country morth and | fryit ripened last September—in fact, and have sold them to India. gourd two or three feet long, containing | morning a little boy about five years ported into the United States, and|a large number of seeds of 2 delicious | old came 1o this village from an out- tmportant forage grasses. The D&ty | dry at this time, I succeeded in going passed through Voy and from Voy 10| five miles. Both sides of this creek Nairobl, the seat of the agricultural|are Jined with hydnocarpus kurzii— department of East Africa and there| in fact, the steep walls and mountain authorities. An exteusive Lrip was 150 | which the Burmese call kalaw. The east of Mount Kefiia and the principal | some ripened in June and July, and the villagers have collected about 350 baskets (sixty pounds each) of seed Larly this nutty flavor, about one inch in diameter | Jayirng place and reported that a tiger suppose some important grain, forage|and one quarter of an inch through, | had carried off some women. I im- which taste something like our butternut, | mediately went with about thirty The route lay east and north|Although this plant has not yet been | men and found two women lyving on tried in this country, It seems probable | the edge of a paddy field. stone dead: and the gold-mining country of Jo-|that it can bo grown here, at least inla little girl two years old had been the Philippines and possibly In Hawalii and Porta Rico. an, still alive, was lying near the The trip west across to Lake Victoria, carried away by the tiger. One wom- across Uganda and down to the Sudan was through a region comparatively lit- tle known by the Department of Agri- culture, but in which many of the American crop plants are grown, and|pened at dawn. ‘which undoubtedly can supply many na-| “This was a terrible thing to me, tive plants of importance in the future|because the husbands of the dead development of American agriculture. The trip down the Nile from the very headwaters at Ripon Falls was most interesting because of the immense de other survivor. The tiger had were burned severely. All this hap- sorgums which almost everywhere line pecial interest to an American agricul- | SRf MY colt. graphs in addition to the many tiger was J. F. ROCK, AGRICULTURAL EXPLORER, PHOTOGRAPHED IN HAWAIL _—_—m— hut badly wounded. The little boy who came with the news was the only pushed him into the fire and his knees women had been with me kalaw seed hunting. We had the woman carried to the village and I did the best I could for her wound. The tiger is grasse: in | said to be the same that followed ds elopmentjof Sative s and grain | (o the jungle. I wrote a letier to the police at Mawleik, some four sorghums which almost everywhere line | days' journey. Meantime against my plants were secured at many different | better judgment, the natives and I stations. The agriculture, methods of |3%€ EOIng on a scarch for the tiger, T 2 » 10 o as i ferigation and cultivation, especially in | who was carricd away s, of course, the upper and lower Sudan, were of es- | dead, and we have no weapons ex- “This kalaw seed hunt has cost turist, three lives and may cost one more. I The African expedition ended at Port | will take the wounded woman with me to Mawleik, trusting that she can Sudan, September 2, 1020, Dr. Shants| .4 tne journey.” (The woman died brought with him about 3,000 photo-|in the wilelk hospital; and the. later caught 1n &4Tapd »