Various points have been stressed! in the past for overcoming the exist. irg conditions. Chief among thege fare that the Chinese Government tly continue its work Tite the work being done in Nanking, The farmers could learn in this way better methods which would unquestionably have a favourable reaction toward their own profits, despite the existence of several middlemen. The poppy field, which in many eases now occupies the area belonging by right to rice cultivation, should te alimented, naturally, sind a direct contact between the farmers who raise the grain with their city markets should be established.
Tt has been frequently advised that a law should be promulgated against banks lending money on rice jas security. This rice stored godowns has at times been the means of jerable and questionable speculation, That the illicit exportation of rice should be carefully guarded against by Customs authori-goes without saying in the scheme, and that the importation lof rice from neighbouring countries which have surplus supplies should jarly be encouraged.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.