Explorations in the Northern Provinces:
Washington, July 12. the Department of Agriculture announces that Dr. P. H, Dorsett, Agricultural Explorer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and his son, Mr. J. H. Dorsett, Collaborator with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will sail from San Francisco on the President Wilson on July 22 for Shanghai to conduct agricultural explorations in the provinces of Chihli and Shensi and in Manchuria, They will spend two or three years making intensive studies of agricultural conditions and the principal crops with a view to ascertaining in what way mutual exchange of seeds and plants can be brought about between China and the United States.—Reuter's American Service.
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