Improvement in wheat of which 910 varieties have been planted at, the central experiment station, has resulted in the selection of three outstanding varieties, noted for their' lustre and compactness of grain, and high percentage of flour content, factors which have been translated into money gain for the farmer of $1:60 more per mow, which now yields two tou more of improved wheat than formerly.
In rice improvement, the yield per mow hax been three tou more than A stof of 43 professors and ase ts are engaged in the work of Spreading farm knowledge among Chinese farmer folk. All the staff ave foreign trained, in either America, Japan, Italy or France, the institutions. of the latter two countries having been responsible for the training of the sericulture experts at the university. Depart. ments of animal husbandry, horticulture, agronomy (farm soils and crops), biology, entomology, sericulture and plant pathology form the basic work in agriculture, The extension work is carried on principally by the staff of this departs ment and student assistants, rural school near the central experi.
rent station is a recent develop. ment, Gaining the confidence of the farmer is the first step in the process, and that is followed steady." and sure results. Boys? clubs have been organized in rural munities and the youthful mer Inspived by the training: Shich he gets from the supervisors of the station spreads the word among the older farmers. Exhibits held periodically. In the same Connexion a few enterprising Tirmers wre chosen each season to try the Improved seed of the yniveraity and the results, speaking: for themselves, add to the converts. the new regime.
'An. interesting, wile of the work the ce-operative seed farm system, whereby the experiment. Station' supplies the improved seed. with the understanding that—the he farmers! the value of which is about $1.50: The rice is noted for its whiteness and] lustre of grain and the low percentage ut broken kernels, According to an experienced farmer who has grown the improved wxt year the farmer will return att equal amount of the seed to aid in the multipbiention of improved varietic The demand for this year Ix more trium can he supplied, according, to the head of the college of asgricul-Ail cotton seed has been variety, rice shops and threshers Last year 870 piculs of prefer it and are willing to pay 40] improved seed were distributed cents. more per picul for the improved than for the usual farmer' im-Teo 560 farmers with an acreage of mately 5,600 mow.
This crop.
500 have been The work, however, of the college, distributed to farmers and to the ig not confined simply to the welec- ce-operative seed farms without tion and improvement of secd.{charge by the university, 'The although this is the largest and' acreage of ce-operative seed farm. probably rusot important phase of tin tothe present ie xlvon at 3300 the work. Considerable attention Hie 1.600 of the total 4100 is paid, also, to the improvement of Neder ealtivation "in three native implements which, after devotgi to" collet being tested in the college tat experimental foundries, he When its recalled that the total bought by the farmer at far lexa creae for colton cultivation than foreign machinery would cost Chinn is iven ut 31,600,000" mow him. A cultivator of particularly that "with improved melhode effectiveness has Leen manufactured sed, the toctcese I lon pee by the college, which can be driven [mow "sould' be appeeaimately 8, by one buffalo and ape man and will do in one day the work of {ome "wen of the "scope of the Snderlaking can he unfertood, "it 10 men. Likewise a planter and a water pump have been improves and offer exceptional advantages. They can be sold at lees than one \ia'aleo lileeed. thatthe rie cro China eovlt We doubled within hart period thrush the general us atthe improved seeds 8 fect which Meascarscexe oF: waLer 1€088 of tie cerenestixe exrenisienns" canny
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