A famine on the Chengtu plains has been thought an impossibility with its splendid irrigation system. However, even for rice there may be too much of a good thing. The rains have not only been—ssu abundant, but the cold and chi. weather that has prevailed throughout the spring and up to date, has checked the development of the rice grass to such an extent mat in some places it tuned yell and had to be transplanted. Yell blades may be seen through the
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