Show washington Us S farm expert gives friendly advice to china department of agriculture officials visit chinese suggest practical methods of increasing food production by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator service union trust building washington D C out to in falls church virginia a little way from washington there lives a friend of mine who was brought up on a tarm arm last year moved in next some ome s new neighbors door city folks you could tell by lo 10 looking king at them but full of pep and vinegar vinegar and very patriotic they st started arted out to make a victory garden d en my friend could tell by the way they handled their hoes that before long be asking him lor for advice hes a good neighbor but he in osey nosey so he just waited well it long before the m man an next door came I 1 up ap leaned 0 ver over the fence a and nd said how Is it t your garden Is coming along so good and mine aint my friend smiled and then he be pitched in and told him some of th the facts acts of plant life it going to benefit my friend even 11 his neighbors garden Is a record breaker but hes a typical american and hes doing what we all used to do back in the old days when neighbor depended on neighbor giving a helping hand when it Is needed last week I 1 sat down across the desk from a big black haired fellow who looks a lot younger than he be Is tn in years and wisdom his name Is dr ralph W phillips when I 1 talked with him he had lust just returned from giving a little neighborly advice over the back le tence n ce to our chinese neighbors hes in charge of genetics investigations tor for the department of agriculture end and he was loaned to the state department part artmont art ment along with some 21 other e experts ap erts to go over to china at the invitation of the chinese to look around and see what ought to be done to improve their stock for you and me and most americans even those who dont know eny any more about a farm arm than to think shorts horts are just underwear a cow that give milk be much of 0 a critter but believe it or not one of the results which it is hoped dr phillips trip will achieve Is to explain to the chinese why cows have udders adders firsthand first hand facts the chinese know many things which we dont know but phillips has put between the covers of a book now being printed in china a lot of things that the chinese never kne knew before he got his facts acts first band traveling over most ol of the unoccupied parts of china with the chinese minister of agriculture and s good interpreter and collated them against his own expert knowledge of 0 animal husbandry but as he ae said to me if you know anything about a cow a sheep or a horse you dont need an interpreter to tell you the matter with it it was a hot day in washington when I 1 interviewed dr phillips and te he had his coat and vest off im a shirtsleeve shirt sleeve diplomat he so caid d to me when I 1 learned a little more of the details of his particular job I 1 realized that it was one in which you had to take off your coat and roll up your sleeves among other he rode several hundred miles over what the chinese laughingly call roads in ancient automobiles end and a good many miles on the back of a very tough mongolian pony this friendly easygoing easy going shirt sleeve scientist typifies a new order he is part ot of a new honest effort as one member of the state department said 16 to me to establish a relationship of people to people rather than a relationship of diplomat to diplomat or government to government dr phillips witnessed the effects 0 of the great migration of the chinese government followed by its universities its people its industries this great movement enforced by the japanese occupation opened up vast territory in western and northwestern china about which very little was known and with which the rulers of china heretofore have been very little concerned for the sake of this discussion china can be roughly divided into two quite different agricultural domains in the crowded eastern provinces small email farming and very small farm ing indeed is the chief activity it I 1 the west there are great grass grasi lands better adapted to the raisin 1 of I I 1 tack stock animal husbandry in china musi meet one immediate problem an that Is increasing and improving production in the western part a the country and breeding tor for re r stocking toc king to in the areas which will bt b re occupied when the japanese art ar driven out the heavy demands for food bi ba pe the american military to say noth ing of chinas cainas own soldiers make I 1 ii necessary for the chinese to tn in crease food production to th utmost at present however dr phillips reported that except tor for th famine allne areas where drouth or in sects have affected the crops th chinese people have more toot food available than Is popularly believed but they arent making the mos of their cows and pigs and chickens As to the chinese cow about which dr phillips spoke with great feel tag ing one of tl the first things to do it to teach the chinese peasant that li it gives milk and that milk is a prett good food and then to improve th breed so that it will give milk at af present the cow is a beast of bur den a draft animal however if 11 asni even as good goad a draft anima as it could be it will not be diall cult to improve the breed so that i will be more efficient as a beast a 0 burden and as a milk giver at the th same time of comae cour se the nomadic who live on the great pla plains ins ol at northern china who live from thell theft herds use the milk as food dried in the form of casein thea the also store butter they have the yak yah and a hybrid animal a cross be tween a yak and a cow which it Is called a pian niu the chickens in china arent much to crow about either I 1 taki tak it from dr phillips description 11 they lay only 50 to 60 eggs a year nobody complains there too breeding from selected types thal thai china already has would be a great greal help dr phillips likes the chinese don keys and in spite of personal expert ehmes ances on their backs thinks mon gollan golian horses have possibilities very good mules are produced ba b crossing the mongolian mare one anc the donkey but the mongolian hors is a little tough mouthed flat with BRIEFS B R I 1 E F S by baukhage premier hidell tojos government has announced details of a countrywide vacant lots utilization program under which the land along railroad lines and highways as S w well e as other available vacant areas rea s will tie lie put ut to use for or growing pumpkins and soybeans fihs ihs to help solve japans war food problems the plan Is quite of our own victory gardens ered crooked legged animal could be greatly improved with inter breeding with a good saddle horse strain no ordered effort dr phillips had bad first firsthand hand expert ence with these little animals ghost ancestors were tough enough tc tc carry khan across asia but bu are too tough to follow the bridle is they get other ideas up until now there seems to have been no ordered effort by the depre senta tives ot of any other foreign coun try to assist in the improvement ol of chinese livestock missionaries here her and there have introduced bertei grades which have had an influence in the immediate vicinity germar missionaries brought in some mc nice tat fat pigs others introduced gooc chickens and cows but these werf only a drop in the bucket the chinese department ol of airl agri culture itself is a new thing and has very little background of training at 01 experience perhaps the one most important influence has been the ex change established bet between veen cornet cornel university and the university ir A number ot of experts it ir agriculture have been trained al ai cornell cornel and have gone back tc china naturally with such a large pro portion of the population illiterate it will be exceedingly difficult t spread the information even whet the chinese leaders themselves art are trained the present chinese government despite the tact fact that almost evera ever ounce of energy has to be kurnec toward fighting the war has an interest evidenced by the wel come reception given the vartoui vardoui american representatives and th united states on its side has sought to improve its relations between people and extend its influence bi this activity which Is a part ol of thi th cultural relations program yanks on leave in british rants ask for or roast beef pudding elsh and chips and home made scones while british custom ers have taken to traditionally tradition all american dishes such as chees with apple pie and fried chicker and wames waffles the british information services report the war may leac to an exchange ot of cooking recipe as well as an ix exchange change of ideas |