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A Shangtung Home.
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as we walked through, and inquired of my interpreter if we had come to make it rain. Such was the stress under which we found these people.


Fig. 126.—Two views of the same farmyard, showing a pile of prepared compost and the farm team.


One of the large farmers, owning ten acres, stated that his usual yield of wheat in good season was 160 catty per