All around us stretch miles. of ripening millet, a sufficient token that the famine is all but over. Late in July, when hope for an autumn harvest was nearly lost, a good rain came and this, with "the showers and thunderstorms that succeeded, changed the face of the earth, -People are still dying of starvation, but for most, there is hope now. Large stretches to the north of the Wei Rivier are only sown with buck-wear, which is wilting and needing rain, 80 there is likely to be much Gistress through the winter, but, when the harvest is reaped at the end of the month, millet should be heap and abundant and this should carry people through.
The great need at the moment is teed for the sowing of the winter wheat, and, as people have no money and wheat is about $6 a ton, there is likely to be much less land than usual sown and so there will be great scarcity for some time to come.
it had not been for the blocking of the eastern road by the difference between the local government and Nanking, wheat would have com naturally and there would have been 'a much better prospect. However, "we ha been saved" from the threatened war and the people rejoice in the thought of the coming 8
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