The Work of the Specialists at Nanking: Study of Many Provinces Soon after the Chinese Cotton Mill Owners' Association had decided, at their annual meeting held this year, to put all the cotton experiment stations under the supervision of the Agricultural Department of the Government Teachers' College, a committee was formed of professors in that Department for promoting and improving cotton culture. According to their opinion, the provinces of Chihli, Shansi, Shensi, Honan, Hupeh, Chekiang and Kiangsu, are all important cotton districts and should have large branch stations under the individual care of specialists to solve local problems in relation to culture.
For the main station located at Nanking, the centre of cotton investigation, an area of 1,000 mow would, it was considered, by no means be too large for experimenting. But, owing to shortness of time, it has only been found possible to make the Kiangpu station and part of experiment ground of the Agricultural Department, with areas of 300 and 60 mow respectively, an annex to the original main station at Hongwumen with an area of 50 mow.
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