The worst and most inexcusable of the evils of this trade is adulteration; and it must be said to the credit of the farmer that it is not he, but the middleman, that does this nefarious business. No doubt, this vice is not peculiar to China, and every cotton country in the rid has had its share of it. Only has not been properly regulated in China, for obvious reasons. The Cotton Anti-Adulteration Association is doing extremely good work in checking this evil, and the Testing House has amply proved its usefulness. Still the percentage of moisture allowed is considerably higher than in any other part of the world because of the opposition of the Chinese middlemen. As one attempt at improving the position recently has had to be given up unfortunately, it is useless to force the pace.. The. Chinese
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