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year ago, already has organized 1,200 women into cooperatives. These women are taught to spin cotton and wool yarn, and to weave cloth. Country women are urged to devote a few hours daily to making marketable articles. Looms and spinning machines are sold to the women at less than cost, and the finished products are sold in the cooperative stores.

Q. Do the Chinese women actually do the farming, Miss Lee ?

A. In rural districts, the women's organizations encourages wives to pinch-hit as farmers, while their farmer husbands are in the army. While the mothers are working on the farms, the older children are cared for in private homes, and the younger ones are sent to nurseries. In order to increase the yield of the land, the Woman's Committee operates experimental farms, on which American cotton seed and other improved seeds have been introduced. Training is given to farm women in animal husbandry, and the result has been a marked increase in domestic animals and in agricultural by-products.

Since 1938 six experimental stations have been built in the heart of Szechwan's silk district to teach the people to weave silk. Modern methods of silk culture have been introduced.

A handicraft school, set up in Chungkind, is another example of the Chinese women's activities. Girls are taught to direct embroidery projects and are being sent to country districts and about the nation's capital