'Fields Now Being Planted' with Grain nos Oun Owx Connrsronoexs Pook!, She, Oct, 20.
Opium suppression' has come about at last for special inspectors have been busy enforcing the provincial order that all available land must be planted with wheat and other grains used as food. The fields have recely-a soaking that will last them till well into next year without replen= Ishment and the yield should be an excellent one for this reason alone. Already the cold days have driven the populace to warmer clothing and the southern mountains turned out
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their rst coat of snow several 'All classes have turned out into the open to welcome the beautiful, sunny autumn weather, 'The rainfall this year, extending almost over a period of three months, has' been Indeed rare In the annals of the dis ict. 'The cotton crops have suffered considerably, many of the plants have been pulled' out before the boll has. fully developed in order to" make way for the wheat, Most of the walls and low-roofed houses are covered with these drying plants whilst the members of the family dry the cotton in the sunny courtyard below,
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