The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1902-01-30
CHINESE
AGRICULTURE

plVu udu " lhosl icHld ! NuUIt eApeEl-
hnce to-day. A brilliantly cduca..
I'd Chin aman. DR.. Yam Phon Lee.
who lately graduated from Yale
hnd came to Delaware, locating
hear Lincoln, believing that With
his education there was more mo-
Tney. health and genuine enjoy ment
In growing Delaware fruit tlian IN
Any other ayocatlon. delivered a
mastery address. DR.. Lee, while
Enthusiastically a Mougolian. has
little, il any Of the Chinese accent,
talked for nearly an hour on Chi
hese Agriculture. Some Of his
best savings were;
The Empires revenues are main
" derived from land taxation, ex.
port and import duties and the salt
n.u oroly. In China the govern.
IN, u, can take away d mans land
Ml.nout compensation. Because
po l. achinery is used, but only the
Eudcst implements, a 10 acre field
would be considered good sized
= farm big enough ,or one man with
WIG " ASlP uiH
! The Chinese farmers wife is sell
Nom az delicate as your women
Her teet ore not bound like those OF
her city sisters. She has been
Drained to work from childhood aud
as she usually goes barefooted,
with her hair tied up IN knot, her
bead imperfectly'protccted iron the
6erce sun by straw hat, aud
meSrlng loose trousers aud blouse
made Of course linen cloth, with
short. barrow sleeves that expose
her sinewy arms, she can hardly
be distinguished from the men, and
lcan lift as much and do as
"a days work as any of them.
The farming implements consist
OF plow-a com bin alton of beam,
eha,e and handle rous hIy put to-
gether; harrow something like
your rake magnltied five times, a
Krubbng hoe and a wooden rake
E With such simple tools and clum.
sy animals. Chinese farmers, by
working from sunrise 10 sunset,
are enabled TO raise enough food for
400, 100000. With anywhere from
so to 500 people TO the square mil,
every foot of tllable land is neccs
sarily brought uHder cultivation.
When not busy in his rice field
or with his wheat and barley. the
Chinese farmer is at work on his
yams, sweet and Irish potatoes,
onions, leeks, lettuce and cabbage,
pr gathering stubble and sticks for
fuel, there being no forests except
on mountain sides.
! The subject of making and main
flaming goods was tho Eoughly dis
itussed at the afternoon session, the
Aubject being opened by Professor
Robinson Of Delaware College, who
delivered an interesting address.
President K. M. Cooper and other
members of the Institute partlcipa-
Ned in the discussion. The sub ect
tcf good roads is receiving good |
Neal Of attention from the farmers
of lower Delaware.
One Of the most instructive ad-
dresses OF the ses sion was the one
on "BreedIng and Feeding for
Beef" by William NJ Dickson, the
successful breeder of the cele bra.cd
Aberdeen Angus ecattle. Iu brief
his remarks were as follows:
"On the question Of feeding, nv
chief reliance lor handy aud eco
nomlcal balanced rallou. ls siage,
composed largely of that great soil
renovating. humas giving aud feed
producing legume-the COW pea.
mot having any data at hand
regarding the cost of beef produc-
tion in the west, cannot make an
accurate comparison with the same
here. The fact. however. that the !.
principal portion Of the western
cattle are started on The ranges,
then transported to the corn grow.
ing states, there to be led and 6n-
ished, subjected to the no small
item Of loss in flesh until becoming
accilmated, also some disc ases that
30 far we have had immunity
from, together With the Increasing
value of land in the central west,
where the feeding is done, indicates
al least that this time we should
put less tailh IN the saving, that
we canrot compete 10 animal in
dustries; but view it from the point
Can we increase the manure
heap aud derive a profit on the ami
mails that dolt? |
The robber COW In the dairy is dis.
tanced by the narrow, contracted,
angular scrub steer that has eaten his
head off, because there is not the
calf to veal Or the little sup of milk
the old fraud left to partially atone
for her deficiency. This does not i'm
ply that we must have fashionably-
bred animals, with extended pedi-
grees, requiring long purses to reach.
Pedigrees are only the guide posts at
the crossing Of the ways, showing us
where we are going.
zone OF the most veritable scrubs
l ever saw had pcdigrecs enough to
wrap him up Ar animal counter
part Of blue-blooded aristocracy. No
merits but ancestry. The beef indi.
Fiduality must be there and not the
type for the dairy. 1t is claimed that
the male at the head of the herd is
half Of the herd lie is far more in s.
Trading up herd il he Is what he |;
Should be In type and finish. Pos .
'sssed Of prepotency that should
stamp itself upon his prodigy. Re. =,
suits are reduced to more OF a GER. ~
tainty and il the breed be one Of the r
improved natural breeds that has not r
lad it's leading characteristics Sacri-