Readers may recall that the Ministry of Agriculture and Mines last year published a series of regalations governing the examination of fertilizers, These were enforce: among the merchants of Shanghai Tientsin and Canton by the Agricultural Products Investigation Bu-beaux of the Ministry of Agriculture and Mines in the three cities men* tioned.
The Chinese press now says that, as a result of the enforcement of the regulations, trade in inferior fertilizers has been effectively stopped in the principal treaty ports, but unscrupulous merchants con-the farmers of the provinces by selling them artificial fertilizers of a very inferior quality, thus indirectly doing great harm. to China's agricultural industry.
With a view to prohibiting the ficial ferure and Mines has ordered the various city governments to assist] the Ministry's Agricultural Products Investigation Bureaux in suppressing the smuggling and sale of i ferior fertilizers. The order that no fertilizers will be permitted to be sold in the interior provinces unless they have been properly examined by the various Agricultuc-Products Investigation Bureaux, and bear the proper "examination labels."
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