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COTTON CULTURE IN
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EXPERIMENTAL "FARMS NOW
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be demonstrated. Jur...
Foreign millowners and others, PROTEST LAUS, B. and S. from members of the Millowners' Associa ingapore.
MARCH 7.
tion of China and the Shanghai Cotton MARCH 27
Anti-Adulteration Asssociation, for some years have actively endeav-i TELAMION, B. & S., from Liverpool.
oured to arouse popular interest in DJARCH,31
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It is news of the first interest that! sociation, who in a letter to Mr. James Kerfoot, of the Evo mills, the Barnard statue of Lincoln' has notified that at a meeting of delegates been offered by Mr. Charles Taft to sent by mill in different parts of China, it had been decided that the the city of Manchester. There could Chinese mills shall tax themselves be no better home for it and we hope one tael cent perpicul on every picul the City Council will make haste to of Chinese cotton consumed by them, close gratefully with the offer and with the object of creating a fund to
MARCH 24. PELEUS, B. & S., for Japan via China. Shanghai
MARCH 25
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be used for the purpose of establish. give the statue a place of honour Mr W. F. Barnes ing cotton experimental stations in its new art gallery, or in the old one This voluntary taxation till the new is ready. The two best- should yield about Tls. 15,000 an- known Lincoln. statues are those by nually.
Saint Gaudens and by Barnard, and it was long disputed among the experts which was the more worthy present; ment of one of the greatest of men. was for the good of China and the The former is a fine piece of work in Chinese people. It is planned to have experimental farms at six the conventional vein, and Londen points, and whi'e these are as yet has chosen to possess it rather thar. undetermined, the most, probable the other. The Barnard statue is localities are Ningpo. Tungchow, anything but conventional, and to Shanghai, Nanting, Hankbw, with probably another somewhere in the those accustomed to the sentimenta immediate Shar chai district, perhaps lism which marks most of the statues HT. Camera Master Mallik HOKUTO-MARU, D. & Co., for Japan-in Chekiang. It is practically settled in our squares and buildings it comes Mr and Mrs StartMe and Mrs M.
that the land necessary will be gr
as something of a shock. For it My A. B. Campbell Mr G. Mark MARCH 30. PROTESILAUS, B. and S, for ranged for without difficulty in time
to start next spring, and special seed stresses to a point at which many Mr F. Carlton Dr A, Casalho Seattle...
has already been sent for from the cavil the ruggedness of its subject. Mr and Mrs E. A
Carvalho Department of Agriculture, Washing-Rather than refine one feature of a ton, which may possibly arrive in
man who was rough-hewn in every time for planting this season.
The work will be under the limb and lineament, the sculptor IYO MARU, N.T.K., for Straits acd direction of Mr. J. H. Reisner, pro- almost fiercely thrusts forward the and disproportion of fessor of agriculture at Nanking clumsiness diverpool
University, who has already done Lincoln's figure, as though to say..
man who needs no ATSUTA MARU. N.Y.E., for Straits considerable experimental work in Here is a
cotton in connexion with the un- sentimental treatment, whose remote- iversity's agricultural school. Mr. ness from the normal "handsome" Swindle, a Government commissioner type is not a thing to hide, but Dr and Mrs B. L. Mr and Mrs J. F. from the Department of Agriculture, rather to
Pasquier display. If the Comming Washington, who passed through statue comes, as we hope and bliss M. W. Dew Mr. Pinson
Mr P. E. Doncaster Mr J. N. Plummer here last month, was instructed to believe it will, to Manchester, it will Madame E. BarentMr A, W. Prior engage an expert cotton agriculturist be one of the few in the city of first Miss K. Enarson. Capt. & Mr Prit to come to Shanghai immediately. rate interest to all who care for: Mr E. L. Freim Mr. Swindle's mission to China was sincerity in art, and will be an object Mr. H. R. Franz to select hardy Chinese orange stock of pilgrimage to Americans for all Mrs F. Fretder
Mr T. Fuller to graft on Florida orange trees the time to come. Nothing could Mr N. 0. Galluzzi March 13.
MrC. Seybe which show signs of deteriorating, more fitly mark the historic connect Capt. F. J. Gill
Mr W. Sinclair Fer &.. Nellore, for Hoogkong: from but it happened that be was also a ion of the city with America, and Miss F. Haines
Capt. D. Skinner London, Bire, E. S. Holworthy, Missection specialist and during the few nothing could better recall that grear Capt. T. P. Hall Holworthy, Mrs, and Miss Young, Mrs.
Hannibal.
Mrs M. Rade and Miss Moorhead, Pta. J. D. Chnarbers, weeks he was in China he was self-sacrificing complement to the Me and Mrs W. A.Miss B. F. Skinner Dir. T. C. Barclay, Mr. and Mrs. able to go into the matter of cutton Civil War. which Americans never Mr D. J. Banscom Mrs W. H. Sparke
Mrs. Fowler, cultivation rather thoroughly.
Mr & Mrs V.Steensly forget, when Lancashire operatives Mr G. Harper Humphreys and hiki, Mr. A. McNay, Mr. and Mrs. McLeod There are many varieties of Am- were content to go hungry that Misses Harrison (5) Mr Charles Stone and infanty L-Com. and Mrs. Rigour,erican cotton and several varieties! America might be united and free. Mr &. Hicks Bir. V.J. Gordon, Mre. Backled child, Mrs. Brayn and infant, Mr. W. Hill, will be required for the special: Manchester Guardian. Bra Miss Chadderton and two Masters soils and climatic conditions of Chadderton, Mr. Feylan, Mr. and different sections in China, and to Master Green, Miss W. Jucol, Mr. W. Gsclect proper plants the services
Ticy, and Sinclair, Mr. and Mrs Hutson,
of an American expert are essen China can produce as fine a staple Dirs Peter sad infant, Dr. and Mrs. tiat. Mr. Swindle's advice was as any country under proper selection 3nd3, Miss A. Tranter, Bliss A. Saltmarsh, Bliss C. BlcFarlane, lies G. Eltham, earerly sought and he was called, and cultivation, as had been demon, Miss V. A. Wakefield, Mis M. Birnie, into consultation with Prof. Reisner, strated with American seed in Shensi, Bit. W. M. Mytechrast, 31r. C. W with the result that telegraphic but the Shensi cotton had gradually Banners, Brig Gen. U. B. Woodroffe orders for seed were sent to Washing deteriorated through neglect and Sgt. J. U. Crawford, Mr. M. Arcangelo ton last month and Mr. Swinde failure to renew the stock. Ker. J. O. Finefroch, Mr. and Mira, J. Aberley, Miss Wilty, Mrs. Finefroch, a sailed with authorization to select children and infant, Mr. L. Pask, Mr and engage the expert. And Mrs. H. Welham, Flag Cap F. C. Fisher, Paymaster Sub.Lt. Wiliams, RN.V.R, UP. O. RN. Wells, Lady F.O.J. Tudor, Mrs F. C. Fisher, Capt.
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It is within the possibilities that the movement now started by Mr. Mr. Swindle was instructed to Nieh and his associates may well select a man who would come to lead to putting Chipa on a self- China with the idea of making a containing basis so far as cotton is
S. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. E M. O'Brien, pame for himself, and to impress on concerned, from the cotton plant to Mr. E. C. Robertson. Miss Lepriets, Mr. him that there is an exceptional the finished cloth.-N. C. Daily, and Mis IL E Tarby, Mr. Barnard, opportunity here for a man who News,
Mrs. Cubitts and plans, Miss B. Mwould devote his energies not only
Derrick and infant, ir. 8. E. Nissim, Miss Norton, Mr. and Mrs. L. Wolterstan, Mr. and Mrs. Aspinall and infant, Mr. J. Bomervelle.
Shaw, Mr. A. W. Vik, Mr. and Mrs. to introducing and cultivating the proper American plant, but by the process of selection and seed distri bution to improve the existing native cotton, as had been done in Africa where even a better staple than the American is now produced by systematic cultivation of a ence, deteriorated plant.
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States of a causeway, carrying two
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