The autumn has been a dry one and the country people lave been anxious about their next year's wiiest crop, which has just been sown, and for which rain was most needed. Fortunately during the past few days an abundant rain has fallen, and there is nothing to fear. Thanks toa kind Providence the harvest throughout Northern Kiangsu is reported goud and the people are apared the horrors of another famine. The wheat was excellent, the bean and siveet potato crop fine. Peanuts however are disappointing, the yield being light,
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