Among other educational enterprises of the Chinese Cotton Mill Owners' Association is the sending of two young men to America to specialize on cotton culture. One is at a university in Texas; one 1s in Maryland close Washington. This was done on the suggestion of Mr. H. Moh, himself an expert of American training. China's first, having qualified as a cotton <pert after four years' theoretical practical nce in Texas A number of young men in districts where there mental tracts are selected from schools during the summer days and are sent into the tion fields to study crop conditions. "These youths are watched by Association officials and if they show aptitude toward cotton, further use 1s made of them.
There is a keen demand for technical knowledge, and to supply. this the Association is translating English to Chinese several works by recognized British American authorities. It publishes daily market report to members, so interior mill owners are kept in uch with yarn and cotton prices Shanghai and Home ports.
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