Show CHINESE AS SLOW AS EVER agricultural machinery Is a baraty in the fields of their country in the agricultural sections ot the entire yingtse valley there Is no use whatever for foreign agricultural implements the achl nese laborers in the rice and cotton fields in the mulberry groves and in the gardens find the chinese ample ments of greater utility than any ot the foreign and adhere to them the chinese hoe which contains a much greater weight of metal than the tor eign one being practically a mattock Is according to their ideas more serviceable in this heavy soil than the foreign implement all the ordinary hand implements of agriculture are shaped and con strutted ted according to chinese taste agricultural machinery Is not used in this section even the plow being a great rarity the chinese turn over the ground usually with their mat locks it 1 harrowed in a primitive way and when the crop is gathered hand labor does all the work under these conditions it is not strange that the importing firm ot shanghai do not consider it worth while to carry a line of agricultural implements it Is difficult even to obtain a foreign implement tor use in the garden of a foreigner in shanghai this Is the present condition and to all appearances it bids fair to con dinue for an indefinite period in the adorth and especially in manchuria ome agricultural implements are beng used but these are rather the re alt of hesslan introduction than ot chinese desire the statement wa aade recently in one of the northern apers that the introduction ol 01 mod n implements seemed practically as far off fis ever t E il ij |