A recent trip through ten hsins, lying in three prefectures, has given your correspondent ity to observe the condition of the orups, etc. In the. hilly districts, barley had headed out, another month will seo these grains cut down, to be followed by rice; and later in the year, in the same fields, maize. Barley is grown in great quantities for fattening bogs; while wheat, buckwheat, maize, etc., are The District of Tangyarg. under Kinkwafu, consists of up in the dry season, but are very large and destructive in the spring. The hills axe very bare, most of the trees having Jong ago been cut off, for fuel. A largo walls of houses in Mokanshan, for instance, azo Tungyang men. The soil of the district is well fitted for fruit, but the difficulties of transportation to largo markets are 60 great that there can be little done: in that Way till railways reach through the interior, The neighbouring district of Tu (locally called Neswoo), with wider plains, a great producer of Chinese dates and other
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