Still a Chance for a Half Of Usual Rice Crop Feont Our Own Comesroxoent Changchow, July 23.
The drought is broken and the scorching heat has been relieved with a decided drop in the temperature. The rains, however, did not take on the proportions of past seasons before Saturday and Sunday. Showers had come in various sections before that, but no rain, The past two days have brought rejoicing to all in this sec-Hon. "there is still a chance for a little better than a half crop of rice. In many places the canals had dried after the rice had been set out fand consequently it has turned yel-Tow. There is still a seaticring of Hee being put in, but if we should have an early frost it will not mature.
Vegetables Searce Vegetables have been scarce for some time. The yellow beans dried in many instances without mature ing. Tomatoes in the foreign gardens have been very poor. Fully 50 per cent. of the plants have died. Prices are up on all foodstuffs. Rice hi Tegistered possibly the sharpest advance, There is a feeling that there Ig no occasion for boosting prices at this time as the stores on hand are sufficient to carry over until the jest of 1935, this contention being. made, of course, in regard tence and Rot to the fresh vegetables.
The average run of summer complaints have been attended to by the doctors and the hospital here. The heat caused a very decided up swing in the number of deaths.
But there being no official record kept by the city government the figures for the entire city can not be checked.
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