In the farmer homes there were chat and kaoliang or leat and kaoliang biscuite with pig-weed soup. A vens advised not to offer to pay for the samples which I too'—the anorale of these families still being strong. But in the homes of the landless—spinners and similar artizans—morale is gone, so 1 paid 4 few coppers for the fried hoppers I took as sample: am quite sure that the ought famine of 1920-21 was of far wide extent than the areas affected this year. Bot the intensity of the] famine in the regions affected thi year make the situation perhaps More desperate, Twas tung in 1620-21. My payroll from beginning to end in that region in Some 60,000 names. dependents to a work.
Approaching another village mot barrow man with a bulky but light load, which he explained was cotton chat which was being sold for food, 'The wheat crop this spring, which _xenerally was good over north China not fail entirely in the region Visited, but it was' not enough to Yeduce'the price, which how per cent, above normal. Kaoliang selling for eleven and twelve cents a catty, or nearly three tines the normal price. Some relief vas sight, however, for. knotiang Gram Manchuria was coming down the Grand Canal, The failure of the fall crop is due to two causes, principally, drought and grasshon~ pers. The grasshoppers have rid-ied the millet; drought twined-the If opportunity autumn along the Chibli-Shantung border to work for five catties of beans and kaoliang a day, feel sure that the representatives fully 1,000,000 people will ask By way of offering work, T hope that the funds may be forthcoming to attcmmpt the digging of wells in the most badly affected hsien. Such magnificent results have followed the digging of wells in Tinghsien that wellirrigation may be said to have—passed experi. mental stage. The digging of a well will give employment the most substantial class of
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