Cheap chemical fertilizer will be manufactured. In recent times, mainly through the advertising propaganda of foreign houses, the Kuangtung farmer has come to learn that the enriching of the soil gives him for larger returns,.and the yearly imports have reached the high gute of $90,000,000, taking Kiangtung as a whole. All' of these fertilizers, the Bureau holds, are not of top grade; and poorer' sorts may be definitely injurious to the sell, so while at first the raiser may note an increase of production, he soon is left with fields that will not Produce anything like what they should.
The government will be the gainer by the opening of this fertilizer factory. Should war break out, it can readily be converted into a plant for the manufacture of explosives.
Ald tu Irrigation With some of the money derived from the rice tax, aid will be extended the country-folk in irrigating their holdings. Where wells are wanted, they will be sunk, and pumps will be put in where water can be brought in most economically.
In spots the land is so sterile that even proper fertilization and trrigation cannot overcome the deficiency, 0 the peasant will be taught to put such lands to other uses. Five gov-ferment farms will be started in as many sections of the province for the raising of cattle, horses, sheep. pigs and poultry. Encouragement will be given thereby to the farmers whose and under no circumstances can produce satisfactory crops, to switch over to the raising of some kind of livestock or poultry.
Better breeds will be introduced, for there is the realization that many
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