Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31
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Me- Within two miles of this city
" q surrounded by lands as rich as

" surrounded by lands as rich az
rfs-- is&a user valley, amid
farming methods a. old as those OF
the delta of Egspt modern asrieui-
tural academy ,as been started by
the government officials OF this back
woods of China. They have nppro-
prated $4,000 a year for its support
and have a live experimental farm OF
z 800 neics connected With It.
This agricultural station Was1foundad
@by Tank Shao vi, the former governor
y of Mukdcu. who recently went 10.
America to thank MS for the return.
of the Boxer indctl,nitN.I understand
that part of his mission was TO look
& i'm educational talent for his agrlepl-
tural academy, and that he VIII bring
q dozen or so young Americans back
with him He has already induced two,
of orr We'll known agricultural experts
10 come here These arc Mir. h, Gs
Parker and Mr.. w. III. Tomhave. who
have both been connected With the
University of Minnesota, Both nave
performed good experimental farm
work in the United States. Prof.
3 Parker has written several books, and
r has also done excellent work for the
+ government at Washington
These young men are now on the
ground They arrived some months
ago. and since then have been traNel-
(. tng over Manchuria on Horseback and
4 An carts studying the country and It's
agricultural possibilities. They have
covered /; large part of southern Man
cIurio and have gone through some OF
the sparseIys settled northern portions,
which they tell mo promise to become
one Of The great bread baskets of Asia
and possibly its tneat-basket as we'll.
Indeed, this new agricultural move
nlent is one of the most encouraging
evidences of the awakening of Asia.
and that it should be! so far advanced
IN Nranchuria, beyond the frontier of
China, is remarkable. 1t is also to be
noted that the movement hasitS origin
in4Alncrica, and flat it is being backed
with the American education OF Chi
nose brains. His excellency Tang Shao
vi who is the prime mover and head.
is a graduate of Yale University. and
NJ II. Llang, who is the chief coun-
selor of the vceroy. and also Tang
Shao Yi's assistant, was educated at
the same school. Tho new agricul-
tural academy has as It's director MI.
3C.aSs Chan a young Chinese graduate
of the University of California, who
speaks English as well as any reader
he uses are based upon the work of
our agricultural department ut WASH
ington.
ON THE WAY TO THE FARM.
q 1t was through the Kindness Of M r,
Liang. whom L had previously met ut
the viceroS' S yamen, that Director:
Chan called upon me at my inn and
arranged for me to visit tho farm and
school. Messrs. Parker and Tomhave |
went with us, and ii was In two old /
Russian droschkies which were strand |
ed here by the war that we galloped
through the wide streets of Mukden
and out into the country. On our way
we passed much farm produce coming
into the city. There were great loads ,
of sorghum, seed hauled in Chinese
carts by rough Manchurian ponies and |
carts piled high with bags of soy beans.
Now and then we passed II grain shop |
where millet and sorghum seed We're |
set out for sale in round basket bins |
the size Of a hogshead. and again went |
by men and animals bringing bean
stalks and sorghum cane into the city
for fuel. AS we did 50 Prof. Parker re-
marked:
THAT Is one of the curses OF Man |
churian farming. These people skinl
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