Universities are working in conjunc. tion with the Agricul'ursl Research Bureau; and they have both sent samples of what after thei: own individual labours they consider to be their best variety of wheat. 'These samples are now being grown side by side and whichever proves to be the best will finally be the only' one registered and distributed.
It is comforting to learn that the' Chinese farmer, though, like his confreres the world over is for the most part suspicious of anything new, the fame of what is at present the finest variety of wheat produced at the Bureau is such that the farmers lterally clamour for the seed, in spite of the fact that the price is quite considerably higher than the other] varieties.
Unfortunately the wheat had proved to be of such interest that Hime did not allow of an inspection of the rice, cotton.and potato fields,
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