The wheat has been harvested and it is: with a satisfaction that will be appreciated by all those who are brought into daily contact with the people that we are able to announce that it isa good crop. In quantity it isin some quarters not greater than it was last year, but the quality is said to be uniformly excellent. This prefecture is thus in a fair way to sustain its reputation for cheap and good wheat bread. The favourite variety is the I: oaping, a sort of gigantic biscuit about eighteen inches in arrieter and an inch and a half baked brown and hard ona griddle, When fresh it is quite palatable.
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