Linseed

the product of Linum usitati ivium, is exported from Kalgan, but is grown also in Ssuch'uan. In 1911 it was predicted that it would become one of the staple exports if the too common practice of adulteration were not indulged in; and this prediction seems correct, since the exportation in 1912 reached 442,000 piculs, worth over Hk. Tls. 2,000,000. This has sdnce been reduced, but only on account of the war. Linen is not at present manufactured in China. The export for 1916 was Pels. 202,499, value Tls. 559,995.