Reporting considerable progress uring 1834, the annual statement of the Cotton Commission of the National Economic Council has been published. 'The report lists the out-tending work done in 1934, and out-Hines plans and objects for' 1935.
"Amone those things achieved during the year under review, the most important were the inauguration of the Central Cotton Improvement Institute, the Cotton Improvement Institutes of Kiangsu, Honan and Shensi, the Cot~ ton Cultivation Direction Bureau of Shans, and the Cotton Insect Research Bureau of Shantung. In addition the Central University, the University of Nanking, and Nantung University, inaugurated training classes in cotton cultivation and ce-operation in cotton production and consumption, and two Students were sent to the USA. to make a special study of cultivation 'A numer of research effies, labora~ tories, grading offices, and cotton breeding yards were established, the Intier scattered through four prov-{nses. Ca-operative societies we extended and the banks induced to give loans to facilitate production and consumption. Forty of these socie-{les were inaugurated with a membership of over 23,000 persons, the area of cotton fields under their' con: trol being about 300,000 mow. Approximately $1,436,000 was loaned by the banks, and much machinery was purchased and established by the societies. During the year they transported altogether 28,140 bags of cotton weighing 92,718 piculs.
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