Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (5 of 5)
Page 81
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Transcription
H.B. Ollerensen Stock Exchange Shanghai He told me that the land was all owned individually by the farmers or peasants, all being small owners and that they assisted their neighbors in harvesting. There is no squeeze here by landlords; apparently American cotton of better quality has been planted at Shanghai but it does not grow well here thus been abandoned. Other varieties might however do better.