Very many farmers cultivate small hhamboo groves and only a month I saw one such started. For those who can wait until March April a very good income can be derived from this source. If money is wanted during the late autumn before Chinese New Year, then contracts for these brooms to be delivered in March/April mean 5) to 100 per cent. interest on the money advanced. thing for, say, a Shanghai drawing room sweeper, but they are of great use on a threshing floor, or even a big yard more or less littered with dead leaves. They enable one to take a mighty sweep and stir up quite a cloud of dust which any onlooker can see is the result of the energy put forth by the operator.
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