Makden, Oct. 9.
The weather in unfortunately for the harvest, which ix very late, bitterly cold.
The immense amount of moisture in the ground prevented the automa crops from matariog as early as usual. Io the couth of Manchuria this is not so very serious, bat in the central and more northern regions much of the millet, the staple food of the country, will be too bitter for human consumption. Had the weather remained good, only for one more week, matters would have been better. The total harvest will probably average out, for the whole of Manchuria, at about half an ordinary. yield, but the quality of everything is mach below the rage.
Tobacco pri well, bat the growers have found it troublesome to dry Everage in quantity and quality this season.
The Viceroy's wise proclamation prohibiting the export of the main food staffs, has had a very calming effect on the people and kept down prices somembat. The rales ought to be much more strictly enforced, as it is the first daty of a government to care for the actual wants of its own people, For instance, whilst grain is disallowed for export, samsba, or the native whisky, is being manufactured in huge quantities and exported. All distilleries should be controlled. Every other country in the world is, without question, given a free band in controlling the export of ite people's food, sod
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