It would be thought that for large territories, and more particularly for the whole of North Manchuria, miss takes would, mere or less, equalize each other, but the example of last year proves that this is not the case.
"Taking the estimates of the crop made in 1938 by the CER. Econo-mie Bureau, as well as by the SMR. Research Department, it will be found that they' were consider ably exaggerated, even for the whole of North Manchuria, as the correspondents of both of these depart ments considerably overestimated the sown area for that year, and in making estimates for 1934 this must be allowed for, as well as the fact that floods have considerably interfered with the sown area.
According to figures received from the correspondents of the
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