Page 2 Advertisements Column 2

Dunstan Times, Issue 3149, 25 December 1922, Page 2

1: urns I not ho supposed that nothin): is being doin’ to moot those difficulties. It inn.-t ho confessed that, coiiisidering the various questions involved, what has been attempted scorns like a very slight beginning; but China lias a nmnbor of agricultural schools and colleges. Many of hoi’ loading citizens, especially those trained, in. the West, are fully cognisant of things that need to ho done. Certain reforms like ihose connected with reforestation, building of levees and other aspects of famine relief, while they can to some extent be handled In provincial governments. await to a large degree the inauguration of a centra! government that is competent .honest and reasonably well financed. Quite a start has been made by missionary forces in agricultural education : at least thirty agricultural missionaries are now in China. The agricultural department of the Canton Christian College and the agricultural college of the University of Nanking have both been doing extremely good work in research as well as in training of students. Contributions have already been made to the silk industry, and within a few years surprising results in the breeding of better strains of cotton have been achieved. The University of Peking is also starting collegiate work. There has inst been held an all-China, agricultural convention .and tin’s promises to be an annual affair with a coni icons attempt to assist in working out.- the details of an all-China programme of rural reconstruction. In Llit v great record sale of South African Ericsians in England, prices were not all profit— 2o per cent, had to come off for commissions of one lend or another, and expenses from start to finish worked) out at £250 per head. A method of protecting young plants from slugs and snails is to saturate sawdust with phony I or carbolic acid, and place the dust around the plants. In some cases superphosphate sprinkled round the plants is effective, and acts also as a good fertiliser.