Silk this year has only been fair, bat the high price enabled the raw' silk merchants to make fair profits. Cotton in very good and the Iste rice promises a beary crop. What is wanted by the farmers is a few weeks of bright sup. The glutinous rice hie is used largely here for vary dear, being about $10" bushel and the ordinary rice of all kinds as increased nearly dollar a boshd since the beginning of Angost. This seems strange when the harvest prospects are to good. The reason given ie that in other grain producing provinces there have been oxtensi Both in Chuki and Deengyan in thie prefecture, heary finds occured daring August destroy: a and many people drowned rice plants; houses were washed
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