Suichow, do., May 17.
Wheat, Wheat every where! I have just returned trem a trip to the southeast of our province. A few days ago I went by the Lunghai and Chinghai Railways +o Hankow. Speaking of the great Honan plain, that is the basin of the Yellow River, it is the same everywhere, fields of wheat in full head waving in the wind, awaiting the ripening sun.
It is now two weeks to harvest. The farmers are all busy preparing their thrashing floors and implements. Never perhaps was a harvest awaited with such expectancy. The end of the famine is in sight. I have noticed in these districts especially how little Aaoliang and how_little cotton there is this year. Every piece of ground which will produce wheat, is planted with that grain. There is one significant thing. No poppy is to be seen. 1 have been told in some sections that the farmers have been forbidden to grow cotton. I rather doubt this for while the need for bread is of first importance the people must have cotton for clothes. However, be seen.
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