The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-03

< liiIldStIC CAtItlSGS Will DIS InOCn Skill
as have seen in the Japanesa
schools. and in their marching they
exhibited the goose step after the
most improved n of the &C.
man infantry. [ understand that 2
military drill is now taught in all the
mCdern schools about Mukden, so that
the educated Manchus Will be a ma
ton of we'll trained soldiers.
Director Chan tells me that the
boys are greatly interested in their
work. They enter the college for five
years, having q preparatory course of
| two years, after which comes a three
year purse in the academy proper
They are not charged for tuition or
board, and the matter of entrance is
largely by favor of the officials. Their
education is patterned after the short
course schools of America. with the
idea that the institution will soon be
advanced to the grade of a first-cIass
agricultural college, in which in
struction will be given by American
professors.
The Nukden Experimental Farm.
Leaving the school. we took a stroll
over the farm. This comprises about
800 acres Of as good soil as any in
southern Ohio. 1t has upon it mul-
berry plantations TO raise leaves for
the silk worms of a department 10
be started next year. The trees are
growing we'll, and, as wild silk is al
t0ddN pIOotCSd III SoUlIItIn AldI1tiQ-
ria, Director chan thinks that an in
dustry furnishing good silk may be-
founded. In another part Of the farm
/ was shown orchards of native
fruit trees, together With several
hundreds of apples, pears, peaches
and other trees from the United
States. There were Walnuts from Cal
eifornia and g~rapevines from a nursery
on Long Island Sound. All seemed to
thrive.
The farm is experimenting on Wheat
tobacco and cotton, as we'll as other
vegetables and grains. 1t is raising
sugar beets which are Is per cent
sugar. This is 3 or 4 cent more than
Germany's crop, and it is thought
hat the Manchurian market may be
eventually supplied by the home
grown material. The difficulty is that
the people prefer a cane sugar, and
that unrefined.
Stock Breeding.
The Mukden authorities are at
tempting the breeding Of fine stock.
They have several Ayrshire and
Shorthorn 0 wv and bulls, and are
crossing them with the native cattle.
They will try to breed better horses
and to improve the native hog.
Mr.. Parker tells me that the chief
cattle in this part of the world now
come from Mongolia. The natives
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grazing grounds, and also the low
%alluvial soils farther down. They
breed their cattle in central places
where the bulls are kept, and when
they have a goodly flock drive them
from place to place to find pasture.
During his time their homes are
round tents of hide, which they can
set up or take down as they please.
When the cattle are ready for the
market they drive them to the Rus
sian or Manchurian cities for sale.
At the present time there it no great
demand for meat in this part Of the
world. The chinese live upon grain.
vegetables and fish, with a bit of ma
tive pork now and then. The Bud
dhists do not eat meat at all, and the
demand is confined to the Moham-
medan Chinese, to the Russians and
to such foreigners as come into the
country. The price for a six-year~
old steer is only SIS in gold.
The cattle are 50 poorly kept that
it takes from six to eight years to
fit a steer for the market, instead
Of three years as at home. Mr.. Par
ker says that the animals are much
like our old Texas longhorns. They
large but not heavy frames, and
on that account they would form
an ideal cattle to cross with Onr
Herefords. He say their meat IS
excellent, resembling the compact
flesh Of the CRASHED cattle of Mon
tana, ut not at all like the corn-ted
bullOcks Of Iowa. The best markets
today are those Of Russian Siberia,
Vladiostock takes considerable
meat, and there is a packing plant
there with ammonia-coolers and con-
crete floors. About five thousand
cattle are consumed a month at Har-
bln, and drOVcs are sent overland to
BlagOVestchensk On the AmOOr ana
Also TO Othnr pI1cCinn Sta4innS win
large military forces
M~ancl.urian Hogs.
AS to the pork OF M~anchuria, no
foreigner eats that if he can possibly
help it: The hogs are the scaEengers.
they are seldom fed, and they rOot
about through the mud and filth,
eating all sorts of vile stuff. AS q Sc
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