Seeing that sales were impossible and that the cost of carrying of this huge quantity' to some. spot where there would be no danger to the population, something. had to be done. In the' first all residents of the district were invited to take as much as they liked, £1 ud of char ut this did not soon tired of at every meal. Then fis were given to pigs for food and finally cows also were pressed into: the service of clearing off the great stock. It) wax found that cows rather relished this food but it is yet to be seen whether they will not Bet some disease from eating Much frozen fish, while the eect fon the milk must be dis
far from tasty and there will pro-pork, of pigs which bably' be an outery shortly from people who buy this kind of meat But all these measures haven got rid of the stock and at present the unfortunate owners are being compelled to cart. the @ of the: stock to the steppes where it can: rot on the ground, and where the stench will not reach the population. and cause an epidemic of some kind. In Harbin stocks have run down this. week and consequently prices. are higher, this being the last week of
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