University then spoke on the work of cotton improvement during the past year. He said:—The work of last year has been directed largely along two lines, the acclimatization of American cotton and the improvement of Chinese cotton.
Pure seed imported from America was grown on the University farms and in ce-operation with stations at Nanhsuchow, Tunko, Nantungchow, Shanghai, and a farmer near Nanking-. The yields at the interior locations were very satisfactory in spite of the fact that the arrival of the seed was a little late for most favourable planting. At Nanhsuchow the American. cotton gave a yield on.the best plots of 174 catties per mow as -compared with a yield of 96 catties of Chinese cotton. At the University farm the fields were both heavily rogued and then selected that yields cannot be figured, tut on similar soil, at the Nanking station of the Chinese Mill Owners' Association there was a yield, from seed which we supplied, of 185 catties per mow while their best Chinese cotton was 111 -eatties per mow. The farmer near Nanking on rather light upland made a little over 100 catties per
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