The Japanese have done much experimental work in agricultural improvement, attempting! to teach the Chinese farmers the use of improved fertilizers, seed selection, the use of improved implements and. the like Mr. Matsuoka cited for example some experiments that had been made in stock breeding on the Mongol frontier, They had found that by crossing pure Merino sheep with the native sheep for three generations they got a stable breed a9 good us the Merino, adapted to the climate and yielding @ third more meat. Pyecisely the same results were hud by crossing Berkshire hogs with the native stock, Of the two and a quarter million patients who passed through their hospitals Fast year from twenty to twenty: five per cent. were Chinese, When the great migration from Shai: tung' was in full tide last year, the. South Manchurian Railway carried them all northwards, adults travelling at nominal fares, while all tunder 15 0nd all over sixty' travelled frve. The railway is obviously ormously protituble concern, but it 1s also obvious that, as its officials say, {ts enterprises profit the Chinese of Manchuria a hundred times more than they do Japan. It has pro-wided the means for millions to earn much more substantial living than the same classes earn in China. During the past 25 years population of all Manchuria has Brown from about 12,000,000 "to 'About 25,000,000, more than doubled fu fact, but in' the Japanese con-rolled areas, that is the Kuantung Jesse feretory and the railway gon, it has multiplied sixteen tines.
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