Soochow Oct. 10.
Crop conditions round Quinsan and "Welting and out into the country are not as promising as they' were last year. Worms got into the rice roots and worked havoc snd in many places there will he no harvest. The territory around Modoh is just_the reverse of what it was last year. They have a very heavy yield of rice and very little rust or other pests.
The trip to Halmun and Chitong revealed good crops in corn and beans and very little rice. The cotton is oer this year and in some places will hot produce more than ten per cent, of the normal. What crop there 1s nearly has been harvested. The boats plying from Shanghai to Haimun and yether places on that side of the river are doing a thriving business irans-porting cotton, The steamer on which T returned to Shanghai was packed with cotton even to the upper deck and around the smoke stack, Some goods going into the Halmun and Chitong sections show Japenese origin, Prices are cheaper than for products and therefore there Is,
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