CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902 — Page 331

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" some hill land of limited extent which has been taken up for pine-apple cultivation and very recently for its extension. Cultivation consists of rice, sugar cane and many minor products and it can hardly be expected that other plants which are cultivated at no great distances away in China usurp the places of long established crops. I think it is pretty safe to assume that

rule the existing crops

can

as com-

pared with other bhinese crops are chose best suited to the nature of the

soil and the conditions and circum-

stances of the country and its people.

The hill lands which produce chiefly wild grasses and pine trees that have been planted by the inhabitants would not come to

any great extent within the influence of the Economic farden, except in regard to grasses for cattle feeding, and it is very doubtful if much can be done

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