The natives say that there has not been over a two-thirds crop of cotton this year, The worms have made sad havoc with the crop. Especially is this true of the American variety which was sown on trial.
The egg hongs here have done a big business the past year up and down the river and eggs are retailing for three cents an half. Ho Chow taps many large towns and villages where there is, for eight months of the year, a large supply. Just now they are running short, but Mr. Parker. representing a large egg firm in Shanghai, seems to be hopeful that the supply will keep up for some time yet.
The two large mission High Schools at Wuhu have a full enrolment and are running along quietly this year without strikes. They have been urged by the Students' Union to go out on strike protesting. against the Government's back pay to their teachers but the students have turned their appeal down, Rev. and Mrs. Beals have returned from America and already settled in their station, Ho Chow. Mr. Beals is entering upon his thirty-second year of service in China. Both Mr. and Mrs. Beals were decorated by the Chinese Government for their faithful famine relief work of former Years.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.