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upon several new inventions along this line which they hope to per- 

 fect. At present they do about the same class of rolling that the 

 Jackson rollers do in Ceylon and India. 



People who have studied the question think that Japan as an agri- 

 cultural exporting nation will hardly become important for many 

 years. There is, however, a possibility that the industries of canning 

 and drying fruits may he given an impetus by the Government in the 

 near future, and that Japanese fruit growers will ultimately export 

 large quantities of cheap canned goods of this character to China and 

 India. Japanese canned peaches which sell at 12A cents a quart are 

 not at all bad, and it is said that 17,000 of these cans were put up 

 last year by one establishment. 



That the Japanese are reaching out after Chinese trade seems to he 

 an acknowledged fact, and with their greater facilities for learning the 

 language they should he able to introduce the Western products which 

 they manufacture into parts of China now inaccessible to Europeans 

 and Americans, and will very probably play an important role in the 

 opening up of China. 



