While a dark picture is perhaps quite true to facts, yet there is fother side which Gughl tobe past has looked attractive ws it present. The copious summed feauised destruction through floods, yet the revival of tree and plant lite has been wonderful, "The normal whet. fields never looked more opetul and the wrens that dried up ater the Moods, and are now sown in wheat, sive soon being covered with, very healthy green colour. "The Winter wheat crop prospect is the best it his been for unani years, The acreage sown thus far may be a trifle less than in former years beceatize Inrge districts remain too wot to be cultivated.
Then, too, because the wheat crop was a partial failure and the autumn Gops were injured by heavy rains the farmers have put forth " speckit Ulort {0 Valse more vegetables for hulumn and winter we. The veyetable gardens are more productive end many more in number than Ustial, The thrift of the village fai rer in north Honan is wonderfully resourceful in the face of disaster and war conditions, Their quiet pati ence in suffering and their persist tnt plodding in spite of ditieutti calls for sympathy:
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