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Show Valuable Foreign Seeds. Mr. Jarod Smith, one of the grass experts of the Department of Agriculture, Agri-culture, st.ttes that the Department has received some seeds which may prove interesting to Western farmers. farm-ers. They are mostly from the arid regions of Siberia and Eussian Tuvkest:in. country ir. many respects re-spects resembling the arid regions of the West. Am ng them are hairy vetch, vhieh is drought and also cold resistant, a variety of winter win-ter rye which is especially hardy cud drought resistaut, oats, and two or three kinds of winter wheat. Most of these seeds ::re thought to be suitable to climates having extremes ex-tremes of temperature, and the Department De-partment is willing to supply free trial kis to farmers desiring to test them. Some of the Turkestan alfalfa, al-falfa, which is thought to be very drought resistant, is also avail-doe. |