The C. E, Rly. Economic Bureau have. just issued their usual midsummer report, which may be taken! conservative, on crop conditions, following being a translation of rame:—
The Economic Bureau received replies from various points in North! Manchuria to their query sent usual and containing a series of questions with regard to harvest, The number of queries sent this year was about 800, the number of replies about 900, which ite sufficient to give a' clear idea of the condition of harvest.
On the basis of these replies the Economic Bureau compiled a report, the conclusions ey which are quite satisfactory.
The harvest of 1925 on the whole may be defined as being above the: we rage and slightly lower than of that of last year.
As regards the Railway in its capacity of a transportation concern, estimating the harvest as a certain quantity of new freight transported, the present harvest is less favourable than last year" as the best harvest this year is found in southern parts of the country, therefore it will be trans-Ported over shorter distances, Nevertheless, the unfavourable side of the proposition is compensate [ed by a general increase in the total cultivated area especially in Anda, Tsitsihar east line regions, where the activity of Hunghytzes "has been prevented, as well as by the fact that in many places beans have been Planted instead of wheat, and beans yield the groutest quantity of freight.
Replies to. inquiries were mostly sent in the beginning of July, and the conclusions drawn above apply! to that time,
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