| Show CHINESE AS SLOW AS EVER agricultural Na machinery chinery la Is a rarity in ih the fields ot 0 their country ic in the agricultural sections of the entire yingtse valley thero there Is practically no use whatever tor for foreign t ag agricultural ri cultural implements the achl chinese lalor laborers ers tn in the rice and cotton lielas in the proves groves anil anti in the garden find the clinese implements ya of greater utility than any of 0 the foreign and adhere to them the chinse canse hoe which contains a much greater weight of metal han the forden cne twing practically a mattock mat la Is according to their idea ideas more serviceable in this heavy heay soil than th tho foreign implement all AN the ordinary hand implements of are shaped and con according to chinese taste agricultural machinery Is not used la in talf a i even the plow being a it great rarity the chinese turn over ho ground wall itally with their mattock it is harrowe lt 11 a printice prin tive way and when the crop Is to gathered hand labor does all the under th thie se tol it la is n nt at strange that the ig firms of shanghai do not consider it worth while to carry a line 0 agricultural it irementa Ire cements ments it Is even to obtain a foren ImD implement lement tor for use in the garden of ft torel gnor in shanghai this ie to the present condition and to all appear ces it bida bids fair to continue for an indefinite period in the north and especially in Alarie manchuria burla some agricultural fulwiler ants are be hs ing used hut but these are the result of 0 Itus sinn introduction than of chinese desire the statement was mado made recently in one of the northern apera that the introduction of mod ern jagt cultural implements seemed i 1 as ps far off ns us ever |
