New Departures at the Nanking University The Agricultural department of Nanking Government Teachers' College has put all its efforts into the solution of the important problems in agriculture for more than three years. Through the aid of various organizations of industrial enterprises experiments with wheat and cotton were carried on at special stations with the object of improving the respective crops.
Recently, the work of sericulture was pursued through the receipt of financial aid from the International Committee for the improvement of sericulture in China.
Thousands of mulberry trees and hundreds of thousands of wild stock trees were planted on_ the new experiment station at Dahshungkuai, while on the old experiment station a building was assigned to sericulture for conducting experiments. In this building, four ounces of silk worms' eggs were hatched and reared in order to multiply the good stock.
The Director of International Committee, Mr. Vieil, a French expert, was invited to act as honorary professor of sericulture. But the director and the vice-director were so interested that on the last Monday they took a special trip to Nanking, paid a visit to the Government Teachers' College and addressed the agriculture students two days in succession.
At present, the agricultural department, encouraged by the International Committee, is endeavouring to push forward the work of sericultural while the International Committee, having deep trust in the Agricultural Department. proposes to organize the Nanking branch in belief of that with the ce-operation of the Nanking University the result will be very promising. They promised further to give several hundred mow of land on the north side of the city for establishing a_ mulberrytree ground after the Italian; style.
K. T. Keh, professor horticulture, has bean charged! with the work of mulberry plantations, and has been sent to France to engage a sericultural specialist. Tt is general believed that the work will greatly benefit the farmers. The ce-operation thus established between the Government College and the Committee should prove success in the future.
Tur C.A.T.S. (or more politely the Canton Amateur Theatrical Society) presented "Lady Hunts-worth's Experiment" a fortnight ago at the Canton Club Theatre. The English speaking community down there is a very small one, but they filled the theatre during the run of the piece—which was for one night only. Mr. C. E. Peacock was the producer, and we note several names known in Shanghai in the cast.
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