One more example may be given as to how a great proportion of trade which formerly passed through Shanghai is no longer in existence, and this because of no fault of Shanghai. An immense quantity of Broad beans ix grown here, and quite considerable quantities were at one time exported to Scotland for cattle feed. When one considers the climate of Scotland and of cattle it produces, one understands its need for imported feed form of be Ata how wort the name, an Aberdeen-Anyus or shorthorn bull taking a first prize will weigh over and buyers from the Argentine several yea ago paid 5,000 uincas for such an ani mal, in order to improve the breed there.
nubly pay more now, considering In former days. the as well a ming used ure quantities of broad beans h went to Sco! winter, but to-d no longer for for this is tha great a labour demand exists here that all the food produced locally: is consumed by the popula tion which at times subsists on Shanghai's industrialism and at other times works in the fields:
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