The year 1990 promised to be the beginning of a new era for the di Velopment of the Extention work in the Wuklang area. The Central Agricultural Extention Committee of the Nanking Government, made a contract with the University of Nanking, by Which the work already started at Wukiang war to be pushed mire rapidly, the Government bearing the extra expense involved while the University was to carry out the plans. 'A. very elaborate programme was drawn up and the work went apace. 'A. gin-house costing $4,000 was built and an allowance of $500 a month was granted, beginning in October, 1000, "Besides ginning cotton it was equipped to shell rice and pump water for irrigation. Also the beginning of a seed farm for the Multiplication of Improved seeds of Cotton, Wheat, Rice and Soya Beans was established by the purchase of 50 mow of land. Each party to the con~ tract was carrying out its part and everything was running smoothly arid promised to bring the wished-for re-Suits, when boom went the cannons fat Mukden and not only was the magazine of the Mukden Arsenal Opera Blown up, but the tremor of that explosion shook the foundations of the EWukiang Demonstration Centre." The Government allowance was cut off and the University of Nanking was again left to ite own resources to carry on the project as well as it could.
At this critical moment, the Shanghat Commercial and Savings Bank came to the rescue. It put considerable sums at the disposal of the University on condition that the money be given out as loans to Farmers' Ca-operatives, It devolved on the 'University to organize these ce-apers tives. Besides the Farmers' Ca-opera-_ tives, there was also started a Farmers! Astociation which has for its object the union of the farmers of the district into a body for social purposes, such as presenting a united front ag~ firist unjust demands of police, the set-Hement of local feuds, the building Jand repair of roads and canals, the Aghting of locusts, smut and rust prevention, the clearing of the district of weeds with down attached to their seeds which makes it possible for the winds to carry the seeds produced on the land of a lazy farmer over Suto the well-cared-for lands of his neighbours, and the care of the health the Community. While the Farmers' Ca-operatives are proving of great value in ce-operative marketing and borrowing, the Farmers' Associa-
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