It should be remembered that most of the replies received from Corresponent were sent in in the end fof July and the beginning of August, tata time when it was quite impossible to estimate the ruin and damage done to the sowings by the flood, but it has already been estimated that the Mooded elds repre-ented more than 90 per cent. of the total sown area, and, therefore, the [damage must be very considerable.
The area to be harvested from wheat is approximately about 59 per cent. of 1931, and that of other cereals about 8) per cent. and in comparison with last year the arca be harvested from beans has decreased by 21 per cent, wheat by 14 per cent, and other cereals by 9 per cent.
Judging from data received possible that wheat will be giving better yield from a unit of area than did last year, while beans and kaoliang will give about the same result, and on the whole. the prospects of the main five cer or the present year have every pearance of being worse than those fof last year, while last year's crop was below the average of the past
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