Hohsien, Aug. 24.
The drought! the drought! the one subject on the tongue of every one you meetin tis sion is the drought. ihe "poor are looking forward. to Starvation in a couple of months and the well-to-do and wealthy are Yooking. forward to visits from marauding re{ugees. Nobody is at ence.
"fohsion is divided into eight sec-tigris, Section 3, which runs across the Whole north of the hsien and occupies Reorly one-atth of its area, is. the Worst nit Its harvest will not yield Mere. than between ten and Aifeen er cent, of the average crops. 'The BSlimates for. the, other sections are follows. "See. 1-05. per cent Sec. Peso' per cents See. 440 er cents Bee. S10 per' cent: 'See. 6-40 ner Seni: See. Toho per cent See. 8-85 SE ad drt sight this showing Perens well for this helen, and i we Wore' detached from' the. hsiens the northwest there, would not be much reason for fear of famine Tooting. 'But Section 3 has been the entrance {0 this hsien from the hsiens Ethinds that are not blessed by hi tug. the Yangtze "River beside" them tate have, and frm which hordes 3 Fefugees pour down on the fertile Shiigy "when a bad year' tke his Makes hose mountainous districts In this ways Section is the key 10 Rteping thi listen from being Tooled "Ra oated above, it will face famine conditions ina couple, of months ands unless something is done Mathe: way' of famine Fell to Deo-Vide" work where the destitute "can nen enough' to keep. soul and: body together, bands wil' form and come lawn upon the test, of the hsien foot" and wilt make their section the fathering ground for ten times thie Sin numbers, t-te feared that the force "of soldiers here will not Able either to. prevent their, comin "prevent their ravaging. the towns land villages after" having forced thole way down.
Fortuntiely. However, our new mayor has Been devoting special at-Teatlon to Section 3. inasmuch 08 8 Hood, part of it is mountainous and 1%the: mountains. are, as, Ts. usual in these regions, naked. His plans, from "his frst coming ere, "live Bforestation on these. bills" Me has (0. give special attention 0
large nursery for supply= Ing young trees to farmers to. whom factions of the, mountain will be. al {seated for wood-lots. 'The planting these trees. will, give. the. very Seat form of famine Feliet that can ber imagine'.
ye' believe that farmers from the fertile, "wellewatered sections. will faaly' apply for. wood-tots and. not fiving inthe. Immediate vicinity "at the' mountains, will be also glad fo hire ihe natives to. do the planting for® them' Not ely so but smal Sri also be encouraged to take Eovoperative groups from, the towns
sections, they. also" contributing Hee or money to be sven to the Tages planting their Tots with young
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