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Excerpt from Foreign Crops and Markets, Vol. 17: September 4, 1928 The condition of wheat in Manchuria was causing apprehension due to heavy rainfall, according to Economic Life of August 9, and prices were reported to be rising;° Drought and small wheat craps are reported in some parts of the Chinese Province of Shantung, according to Consul Price at Tsinan. He states further that as a result of poor crops, ban ditry, civil war and other causes famine conditions new prevail in some localities and by winter roughly a sixth of the population may be in want. Similar conditions are also said to prevail in neighboring regions ad joining this Consular district. Shipments to and from.the region are difa ficult ordinarily due to poor transportation facilities, and considerable disorder, the latter having made transportation especially difficuly re cently. The report of a poor crop is confirmed by a report from Consul Weber at Chefoo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.