To some extent fruit and vegetables escape the local tax and are good, varied, plentiful, and fairly cheap. In the spring beans and peas are the chief accompaniment to the staple diet of the people; in summer the potato and Indian corn crops are gathered and enjoyed; later the rice, will be stored for the winter, After the delicious oranges of winter' and early spring, rivalling the Californian "Sunkist" in flavour and juiciness, a wonderful variety of fruit follows—cherries, apricots, plums, magnificent golden blush peaches, apples, pears, persimmons, and really worth-eating pomegranates. Tomatoes grow rank as weeds for the greater part of the year; mushrooms, walnuts, chestnuts, and fresh ginger add a diversity of flavours to one's diet.
The production of Puerh tea, much esteemed by the Chinese, in the south of the province is to be extended by experts from Hangchow and Foochow; the mulberry is to be cultivated widely to compensate for losses to the silk industry in Shangtung and elsewhere in occupied China. Cotton-growing is much encouraged, and the planting of hemp has been proposed. Locally produced goods packed in tins and cartons, such as rolled oats, vermicelli, and condensed milk, have already found an eager market. Much has been done by individual enterprise; more will be set on foot by the National Resources Commission. Industrialists, merchants, metallurgists, chemists, engineers, agriculturists, doctors, and social workers are all needed—provided they come with money, enterprise, and enthusiasm. Many experts have already arrived; more are needed to help build up this province, which must play an increasingly important part in the China of the future.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.