Show Globe Circled in U. U S S. S Search for New Plants W WASHINGTON CA Froin AI At From an I office half halt burled buried among dozens doens o of others In a a. rambling temporary building a a. young man directs the governments government's activities In In- Inan an nn enterprIse enterprise enter enter- I prise as old as mankind and as broad as the world Is wide He Is Knowles A. A In charge of ot the office of ot foreign seed and I plant lant Introduction and It is his job to superintend a n. n J plant Immigrant immigrant grant family that Is growing at the rate of abo about t members a. a a year ear Working with Ryerson Byerson In the broad expanse expense of ot the globe are men twice his ape age but he ho is no youth In the knowledge of ot the task he lie performs lie He came to Washington from Port Prince Haiti Hatti where ho he served II the native government as s asa asa a a. plant pathologist Prior to that he assisted an agricultural survey of Palestine In a a. broad sense the agricultural explorer Is as old as the history of or men Desiring better foods man became an explorer a a. plant hunter The modern agricultural explorer however Is a a. development of ot the thelast thelast thelast last quarter of ot a a. century and came into being In the United States department department department de de- de- de of agriculture lie He goes out into the little known parts of foreign countries to to bring brIne back ne new crop plants He must be lie thorough patient with endless detail delan and ready to face physical h danger tanger During twenty five years these thes explorers have brought bt to the tile United United Unit Unit- ed Cd States plant immigrants that have found round a a. definite place in agriculture There is hardly a a. farm Carm cro crop on the continent that does not trace Its ancestry to some foreign I source I e I |