Preliminary reports on silk cocoons indicate that the yield Is about three times as much 05 last year. Local papers say that more than 1,000.000 feattles will bring nearly $2,000,000 Into circulation. Farmers, specially those who used the disease-free cultures are openly cheerful, while: the anxious looks of shopkeepers relax. Into something Ike smiles as country people come in to pay bills and buy more necessities. Early rice planters have transferred the young, tender stalks to the open paddy fields, while successive showers reduce the need for irrigation.
As one travels through the towns, villages and country districts, the impression grows that this part of Chekiang is about to come out of the depression that has lingered too long.
The Bank of China with increasing business, has secured for its Kashing sub-branch a large lot near the former Northgate, on the highway from Hangchow to Soochow and quite close to the "heart of the market."
Suitable Buildings in keeping with the bank's standards are to be erected.
'A. marked improvement in transportation may be noted in the movements of soldiers. Formerly, for the Tack of roads, boats of any and every sort were impressed into service. Unhappy but helpless boaiimen sailed, rowed or pulled these boats along the waterways, but with mew highways the railway brings soldiers, with full equipment to important points, thence in motor trucks and Norse' carts, "men and equipment [proceed in' good order to their Uestination. Much of this is done night or early morning hours:
as to disturb ordinary trafic a3 Uttle as possible. Old' haphazard methods seem to be passing with improved discipline.
The schools are busy with examina tions before the summer vacation. The Rev. George A. Hudson and. family left early this month for one year in America, One of our most Jorominent families in Kashing appre-lates the success and promotion of Dr, 8. M. Tao as mentioned in your last Sunday issue of the "North-China Daily News." This young lady was, bom here. The ancestral hall of her randtather, the former Viceroy ut the two Kuangs, and her father who did so much to promote reform In Jocal educational matters may po een in the southeastern suburb near {he railway, ar mother is sti vin
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