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 According to the Argentinian Minister of Agriculture the mesquites grow in nearly all parts of Argentina.

Dr. Clarence F. Jones of Clark University reports beanbearing mesquites in the dry parts of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Paraguay.

Some of these beans were valuable and used for tannin and others for dye stuffs.

This group of bean-bearers holds out interesting possibilities of increased productivity for the arid lands of our Southwest, of Mexico, and of similar lands in each of the other five continents.

The possibility of further and useful adaptation to particular places and needs lies pregnantly in the statement that the tropically tender keawe of Hawaii is of the same species