Fine Harvests Bring Relief to Suffering People Bumper crops in the Yangtze Valley, which were responsible for the marked trade recovery during the past two years, are reported in the Kiangnan districts (Lower Yangtze) this year, according to Chinese reports, The total harvest of rice crops this year, according to these messages, is expected by farmers to surpass that of last year by twenty per cent. Rice from the early harvests have already appeared in the market, while late crops of a high order will be due when the frost season sets in.
On the outskirts of Shanghai and in the Pootung district, where the chief crop grown is cotton, it is reported, good harvests have also been gathered. The bumper crops, together with slackening sales in the jocal market, have resulted in a general reduction in prices.
These conditions, which, vouchsafe a comparatively easy year to the common people so far as food and clothing problems are concerned, have been viewed with great relief by those suffering from the effects of hostilities, according to the reports.
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