The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-06-21
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Have You many fine horsesqr
Our horse breeding is cbier,
me army. We have eoya LOT
arms n several hundred s1a4iemt
which are distributed to the aia.Itohs
where horses are bred. W. sr'SOflcts
the Arabs and thoroughbrede rIr t mat
most desirable sires. We bs," ne
thousands Of registered mares $50
breeding is encouraged by pvizas
ed at fairs n by the purrhs o-i'f.
good stock by the government WI "
have altogether a million or ca 'e
horses and ponies ia India. w VI
also preeolng mules for military mr.
poses, and have something like 40
donkey stations, nan of which la.V
been imported from Cyprus and IrlIre
We get them also from Spain Pr.
and America. We have about - 6To
pony mares and a large number ~
donkey mares, as Well.
Opium and the Chinese Marker
Our conversation here turned ra +ho
efforts of China to abolish the rsa ~
opium, and | asked Mr.. Miller wharher
this would not seriously affect uonr[-
farming in India.
Most asuredly it will" was tn re-
ply If China stops using the drla,
the greater part of our opium farms
VII Ot "iptO out ana We snail lose =
large We have agreed To emf
Gown our production and to restrict
our importations to China if the
II government can show that +
is really in earnest in abOlishing the
opium evil. AS it is now we are get
ting a revenu of about twenty-four
million dollars per annum out of OPT
UNI. The loss of that sum viii mean
much to the government service. az
NC n VIC w ~ Wv Of
control the crop and manufacture t
for shipment abroad"
How is the opium handlede"
I'm British India it is a govern
ment monopoly, and it is also raised
in the native States. AS to the product
of the latter the government does not
interfere, but it allows no opium to
come into or pass through the British
territories without payment Of duty.
The amount of land under such ruI-
is comparatively small. In the
British territories it is not more than
1900 square miles, OF about equal TO
State Of Rhode Island. The gov
decides what fields may he
planted in peoples and restricts these
to certain sections of Bengal and the
United Provinces. The cultivators re
eeiye advances to enable them TO pre-
pare the ground and raise the peoples,
but are bound to sell their whole crop
to the official agents at the govern
ment's price. They send it to the fac
tories, where it is prepared for the
markets. 1t is there put up in chests
and shipped to Calcutta, where there
are auction sales monthly for cXI 0rts
broad
lndia's Opium the Best.
why does China. which raises
opium itself, take Indian opium? p"
Because our opium is the best Of
he world. We haye one kind called
which brings in something
ike So, 600 a year. AS to the
Chinese, we have agreed to stop send
ng them opium if they Will stop using
he drug in the space of ten years,
They must also stop raising opium.
have begun to carry out our part
# the contract and are gradually re
iucing our manufacture and the areas
lanted. If the Chinese do not carry
ut their part Of the contract We snail
.ontinue to xport the product
Us much opium consumed in In
ia 2"
1T is used in every province. al
hOugh not to the extent of CHINA.
he consumption is the highest IN
Assam, where it amounts to about
pounds per thousand. Inc
Provinces use something IKE
We pounds per thousand, and the PEG
lie of Southern India less. Ihe dfuS
5 not smoked, but is usually taken IN
ills and sometimes is drunk, dlssoIF-
d in water
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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We own a horse hat starts out III