A speciitl correspondent of the "Ryoto Shimpo," Dairen, who is in the service of the Mongolia Industrial Company, writes from Paiyintala as follows:—The paddy-fields irrigated with water of the Chingshui river, a tributary of the Liao in Mongolia, number 10 farms with" the total area of-6,570,000 tsubo. According to aa estimate made by the Kuantung Government, the water of the Chingshui will be enough to irrigate rice-farms to the extent of 17,520,000 tsubo. The farming public have thought 10,950,000 tsubo to be quite a safe figure. However, this year even the Huahsing Kungsu, under management of Messrs, Okura, felt a shortage of water. Their paddy-fields are situated on the upper reaches of the river. Small wonder that greater difficulty was met with by the others on the lower reaches in obtaining water. The- farms belonging to the Mongolia Industrial Ca. became parched under a drought, and the young rice blades' were blighted and killed. The dispute between the Huahsing Kungsu and the Yuchien Kungsu was caused by the former's monopoly of water. The Yuchien Kungsu lodged a complaint with the Prefect, backed up -by other Chinese and Korean rice-growers. The Prefect ordered the immediate closing of the office of the Huahsing Kungsu, and threw its Chinese helpers in gaol and seized the ponies, etc. The dispute led to the murder of a Japanese policeman, etc. beside teaching what a profitless venture rice-farming in Mongolia is.
Some of the paddy-fields have been converted into dry rice farms after a purely Chinese fashion. Because of the singular aptitude of the Chinese-managers supervising the cultivation, excellent returns have been reaped. An outlay of Y.5,000 in expenses is said to have brought in:
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