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POSSIBILITIES OF THE NEW TERRITORIES.

A THOUSAND MILLION CABBAGES A YEAR.

THE PROPOSED AGRICULTURAL SHOW.

THE GOOD IT IS LIKELY TO DO.

Vegetables.

Now, tarn to vegetables, a unh bage inquires about two square fret, ox Direr spare feet allowing for paths in the vegetable garden. † This is equal to 1500 per mere the New Terrds of 1,188 milliona or M0 million on the in,new ares of

allowing two mops a year.

This emes to four chishige, for their equivalent in other vegetables) per hed per day to day TIMEOUTS HE habituals of the Colony. Probably one third of a cabinage per day r one-twelth of this supply world be

It is proposed to hold an Agrien). tmund Show in the New Territory next winter and the question at otre arises -What ase is it? What koud is it likely to do! The amal flower show in Hong Kong bring flower lovers together, enables them to see what others are doing and gives couragement to the gm- But an agricultural show

mai

of the attenediones en The down show it con sareely in ma sial funtion and Kampie. This allows a large margin.) and likely to be much of beauty to attened the general puble and on must, therefore, book to other factors to ensure its surress,

some

The New Territory, with the ex

There is, however,

HONG KONG STOĆK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

JUNE 13TH 1997. $1,0724 nom.

B.£. Bank

Dow London..... 117 m. Chartered Bank Dəm.

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China Underwriters North China lun Union Insuranc Yangtze Jugurance China Fire Luxurance Hong Kong Pwe Dooglanes

Steamboats

Kong Lugs Quinse (Prof.).

Do.

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Shell Transports dist Fotrik Winterbonis.. Chun Saga Malabon Sugata Beng

budilna Maning Aaron Langkat combined;... (Mugin)..... S'ha, Explorations

Bonglini keliatan

Tronoh Mmes Ural Caspialist H.K. & R. Whatts HK & W. Ducks.. Kunj,kwa...

New gigg Shanghai bonka H.K. &.

...213 nom.

29 buy.

$69 bom. 8620 11901. $0.80 nom.

Tl. 143 buy. .$:279) buy, M. $40 nom. ....8210 buy.

Sotu nom.

i buy.

Bom,

31.10 дна. Bu nom. .960 gal. .98;- Dom,

SLS buy.

$i hom.

-$375

Lany. Thu.

Sof nom. Tha. Yg note. 14. 4 uous,

i non 21;- ROM. 8. nom.

sit 4 buy. $38 nom

Tim. 1+ buy.

& buy buy.

HK. Laws dong Kong Henity.......69 0.

Humpliteys to ustos. LOTEN FUL

659 nom.

for such land as is so attuated as ļ to be unsuitable for vegetable gar

deng. Surely one telth of our agricultural land might be made ac cessible to the floug Kong market ception of the urban districts adby stram launch, railway or motor- joining Kowloon depends entica rend. It must be clearly borne in on agrivulture and fishing. There is į mind that, it is no ndvantage to the und that the hills were af poly it it must subsidiz farm time much better timbered thanes by railways, rudds, irrigation Bits and scheme or otherwise in our to now, but the present brushwood serves little more than enable them to empete with the growers in the more fretde land of to keep its on inhabitants in firewoud. Old terraces up to gand the Canton River Delta. We, how feet were probably tea plantations ever, already have a railway, so miles of motor roads and wat in the days before the wientifie growing and curing the tra in Iralia Ways Which command a great length of const line and it seems that there Sunted the tiana" product. A few

plaints ny still he found near is not much more to be an in the villages but it seems that the this direction.

as which form the bulk of tlu Territory are of little economie - count. There is then left some 20,000 arres of agricultural and most of which hears two mos of

addy a year, some a third erop off is the mature by the use Sinspota Tractions. nd sweet potatoes, some of the more

of treaty Chim is crabbit c matain her dense population. sandy and grows ground nut vř

in this summer white you do not return to the land what auch am njoining the urban dig" you take out of it, it will eventually triets is given up to vegetables. ecase to yield crops. The trouble with the use of night soil is that it is unpleasant, and is a danger to health. The Chines have solved. the second sifficulty by boiling all water and cooking a food and are different to the former one. The Westeruny solves both difficulties by the wasteful method of tuning the night soil into the sea. great" peddid m for modern sanitary authorities how the use the buman

sugar Cate

Better Use Of The Land.

The question then arises, an bottes use be made of the band ( large part of our vegetable supply nes from th Canton Delta and www cut off during the boyeutt of wes and p20. Would it not be pokud to vegetable g7iewing in place of airs, wing that the latter can be im

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the important question of manure. The Inn in the Delta is u dobi more fertile than the average of land in the Territority. Vegetables fertiz. than rice. retire worr

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101. I'ls. 2.kú me1. Tis. 2.10 nom.

Bural Lands

Orientais Shang, Luttons (ukų... Tin, 52 bay. [126 buy. Chile Base

1.1. 7 bay. H.. Namways. $20.80 buy, Peak Trazos (old)

$15 ме 1ju. {luew)....

Amuromente auton ices

Cemente (combined)......

.$8 11

The Hon.

$1 num. „ɔżej buy.

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37.36

لإفادة

202.

..$2.30 nom.. ...$15 wel.

(old) ......$.60 buy. μα (New)....... Chins Lighte(comb.)...............$14.20 som.

136 199. (old) $10 10. 1513. (new)......7 nom China Providents ...$14 buy. Constructions Dairy Farmas Der A Wings...... H.K. Electrics....

Electrics d.k.

(old) Do. DD. (new) Lane Crawfords. Mackintosha.... Sincerca

United Agbenton Watsons fold; Wm. Powells.....

523 sel

10.

buy.

310

noni.

35

mm.

$7

*7 HOL.

..$19) nom.

$

nom.

$20 nom.

..$11 buy.

So num,

$3.78 nom.

nomical.

its being a nuisance in trusit grad bay-buyers; andler; les when the Chinese arket garden,

es have learnt that spraying it over their vegetables is inis take--that it should g to the roots--there will be little more tu he done in the way of fertilizer: And with the railway, motor roads at steam bunches the Colony

Fruit,

EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS,

ON LONDON.-

June 13th, 1927.

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Telegraphic Transfor Bank Bills, on deraand 1/10 Batik Bills, at 30 days sight Hank Bills, at months'

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Documentary Bills,

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months' sight Flats-

...9/1.

Bank Bills, or demand 1,240 Credits, 4 monthe eight... On New York.-

ported from Saigon and Bangkok, serta from the towns, in the No doubt the Pilta is more tortile place where it shout bad larol, wommunications are good, and the land--without its being a quia ghovratt mesure it might nee and without its being a be desirable to exploit Now The dangue health. When some plac ritory vegetable growing much he-tical means are evolved of conveying | yond what would be economic in the night spil to the land withma | Telephones..... iemal timas. But even assuming

nominal Coulitions and a free doan fron pohtical strikes and bey cuts it is probable that better use

uld be inde of the age altura and in the Territory than is now done An agricultural population is usually eservative and is Bable to lag bekand the times, and probably pably is grown on much should be self supporting in the land through nat custom where | matter of vegetables, ver tables would be a better paying Of course, it is not to be

Frait is the next consideration. expected that a few atat un gar deners can bach The farmers of Bananas are probably the fruit in forly centuries

mark about theit vest common igo, Deby in market Lasiness. But still there are posing counts for little here, the fruit sibilities of improvement. By will ripen in transit. It is doubtful scientific selection of varieties it if much can be done to compete with has been found possible to grow the more fertile and better watered | wheat in Canada much further land of the Delta, but better varie north than ald be done 20 years ties might be introduced which ago with the result of a inch would meet the handicap imposed

By high class by nature, greater production. farming the yield of wheat in Eng land amounts to over 30 bushels an sero against a yield of loss than 20 bushels in Canada. The farmers of the New Territories are not so rooted to traditional customs that they will not adopt new and in proved artheds of cultivation, or will reject seeds which produce better results, if only it shown with reasonable certainty that the new methods and new seeds will produce better results than the old ones. So small an arra as 40,000 acres of agricultural land would not be worth the establish mut of an Agricultural College, but the publicity of an agricultural show might make known something of what is being done at the Linx Nan Agricultural College, Canton. The Nanking University in the Philippines and by the Botanical and Forestry Department, Hong Kong. besides bringing together those interested and making know

requirements of both consumer and producer.

Pine apples are well established in the Territory. There are, how- ever, only one or two varieties com

o ly grown and they mature in about four weeks in July and August if other varieties would be introduced maturing earlier and Inter it would be a great help to the fruit supply. The pine apple has the advantage that it is typhoon proof and the disadvantage that it leads to a considerable amount of

face denudation of the soil. Papaya is another fruit easily

glowe and it seems that all that is

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PATROCLUS "ANTENOR '

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urged on the attention of the Gov- eriment with a view to an offerr of the Botanical Department being available as adviser to local farm-

ers.

red is to prevent deterioration in the quality by the supply of seeds any improved varieties which boil papaya for food as a vegetable may be introduced. The Chinese while the fruit is still green, The Europeans, on the other hand, cut the fruit when ripe only. Within Meral years papayas have come greatly into favour as a seasons fruit. If they are cultivated exten- sively in the New Territary, a pro- Stable market might he found for Advice To Prospective Exhibitors. A few figures will show, the posthem in Shanghai and the Northern sibilities of the situation. The ports where, on acerunt of the tural Show has decided, as this is The Committee of the Agricul pulation of Hong Kong and the Newelinate, the fruit cannot be grown. Territories-is about 700,000. The

a fast attempt, to confine the com- Oranges and lichees are both petition classes to rice, sugar cane, Consumption of rice amounts tra about a pound per head per day, former the small longe skinned is hoped that other exhibits will grown in the Territory, Of the vegetables, roots and fruit, but is this works out to 114,000 tona a

kat tsai" in the only one year. No figures are available for range

be put in, not for competition, but the the actual production of rice in the grown to any extent, Lichees are New Territory. But from statis largely grown at Fanling and there which will be of use in showing

requirements in the way of agricul ties relating to India and elsewhere are several new plantations in the turn implements and in supply neighbourhood. The trouble with available in the way of fertilizers it seems that half a ton per aere may be reckoned as a fair annual these and with all fruit is that there and as to information on agricul Field; this gives only 28,00 tons as no reliable "nuesery gardener tural questions and it is hoped that year or about one-sixth of the re- in the Colony from whom one could all those interested in the subject it is be sure of obtaining plants of a will assist to make this first at- quirements of the Colony, and clear, therefore, that we cannot variety asked for and if something tempt a success. Already there are reckin on keeping ourselves in rice. could be done by the Botanical indications that firms of importers We may, however, fairly reckon on and Forestry Department or by of agricultural implements are in- increasing the crop an has been private enterprize to meet this dif. terosting themselves in the pas done in the case of wheat in other culty it seems not unlikely that sibilities of the December Exhibi dissemination of the local demand might be met by tion. The Committee are anxious to the knowledge that has been gain-local production, In this respect give every facility to prospective ed in other places may help the the recommendation of the Comexhibitors: applications for space the exhibition building farmers of the Now Territories to mittee on the Economic Resources improve their methods and so in of the Colony may be usefully should be made without loss of time. crease their crops.

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