Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1919 — Cotton Growing In China. [ARTICLE]

Cotton Growing In China.

Now that China has decided what kind of cotton seed does best in that country, and is distributing it by the ton to farmers, cotton growing starts on a new geographical development. The time may yet come when the Chinese laundrynian, far froiu home, will croon over his collars that he is “still longing for the old plantation.” Work done during several years in four experiment stations indicates that out of forty varieties of seed the kind known as “Trice” is best suited for Chinese cultivation. It appears that “Trice” yields 141 cattles to the moe, which is the Chinese way of saying something more than 141 pounds per one-sixth of an acre, for the catty weighs about one-third more than the English pound. The Chinese pound, for that matter 4s called “kin,” but for some reason foreigners prefer to call It a "catty.”