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Show ALFALFA SEEO IS OBTAINED IN SIBERIA WILL GROW WHERE THE SEVEREST SEVER-EST WEATHER PREVAILS. Brought to This Country by AgrtcuT-tural AgrtcuT-tural Explorer Sent Out oy the Washington Government. Washington, Feb. 19 N. E. Hanson, tho agricultural explorer and horticulturist, horticul-turist, who for the past eight months has been traveling througn itussia, Siberia, Central Asia, Turiccsianri and northern Africa, in quest or new v rlcties of alfalfa and clover ror cultivation cul-tivation in this country, nas returned with more than 300 lots or seeds and plants to be used by the department in experimental work. On previous trips, Professor Hanson has round alfalfa al-falfa aud clover plants which have been found to thrive in sections or the west where it had been ImpoBsiblo to raise plants of tho same variety advantageously. ad-vantageously. He also Introduced In the northwest a Siberian airalta that j is believed to be tho hardiest or pro-told pro-told plants and -endures tne severest cold. Professor Hanson has round two ''more varieties of this northern plant which grows In a bectlon or Siberia where the mercury freezes ana waere there Is no enow. The department ot agriculture will conduct experiments with the new plant in several northwestern north-western states. , |