Show tor f l lj vJ r r A t j r E CI China Food h and WheN It Comae Co anda and i Rata a Small Part ot of is N a AMERICAN EAT IN CHINA hestA Jook at the Ot of North th the Is III Cu It I Ii I I 11 and Mill And a of oC a JI I Erected by qt Elf fig Chances tOt to COTh Will WUI Eat EatH It H and Add a Million J tJ I How flow the War and LInd Famine Are Arc Opening Up the I Ure le Ie Our Corn Com Future of oC hi less lull IId Camel Flesh for Markets to Our Cereals a arvant on C 2 1 Dog 0 and a Bible DIble 8 Society let 1111 Ate At Dead Buffalo I I YV y I A f PRANK G i ted 2110 i by G r rIl Il penter lIal November I 1 In the United Unit Stales hu bel a per pr Int interest In the 1 w eventually III bt be oat oM or of tb the bl blI I g g t market for tor our cot and the I ripe tor our OU wheat and n to 10 the frost There Ther I a a amand demand mand for them at al the porta and If the merchants l bid bad them In sad and they might be fd In Into tb the thed d Interior this winter The northern n part rt ot of the empire la Is now on the IM verge verle of 01 a famine Home MOIne of 01 the provinces have had bad short lIh rt for year ean The farm of raised almost almot noth I In In sun MAn th h nl r e th the n h n nit have hao had much to lu do with foment Ii the be I Boxer U II In Ih a abad bid bad way The VI valley lie hu baa been Ih the lands about Pekin are aN laid J ld waste ute of oC village a hUt have teen destroyed and ot of thou uda ot of purple hll r left Itt theIr fields cS to In fn or follow the army destitution exists throughout a an n part of northern China It I Ii oW In set IO lion that the people stave haY enough III laid I 01 up I for tor the winter and when the cold weather I com comes on Ih the sufferIng will III he be Intense The Chinese NI rely on fast and to 10 Ie keep them warm Sll h an n ex I as furl to 10 Inc Increase ones onea bodily Mat heat I ii unknown n The houses hoult a not warmed and Ind the cold I of nature wUl MUI lit be doubled by the lack laek ot of food to It CHINAS FOOD SUPPLY l fW people le realise the enormous normous I of food it 11 lak takes to supply auppl the Chin Chinese ThiN There are aN about tour hundred million active stomachs trotting about l these yellow ello skins and each ot of theta them cries for ml meal three limes Ida a day The Inal opinion at home le II that th the are ke kept t quiet on rats rate and rk rice This le II II a mistake Rata Rat are such luch poor tiltinG tatting that only the lowest ot of the pIO peo pie touch them anti and rice coats so o much that It Ita Is II largely confined to the regions ot of south and central China host ot of the north I Chinese cannot afford rice TJI They live I e upon millet corn barley barly beans aH and sorghum seed They tal col talI I some lame wheat RUne eating th the bran brall as well 11 a at atthe i the They know knoll duet haw hn mw lilli h hI I t It tikes to sustain life and an th thy Rr nn to tb lit gel the Ihl bloat hest and cheapest food tood that Ht tile the world can an supply f AN FLOUR IX IN IUNA The molt t of flour which b rom comes to China cab too loo much for common rommon con consumption It Is III bring eaten however hoever b by the wanto d and thousands Q nt II I sucks hll of 01 It are as a coati for fill sweat cake cak a Wr lir shipped Pd flatly twice us u much test year ar u as we did In I I I 1 Ilya ant and In IS fight th the total amount WRit was pounds W are I our no now to 10 th the garrisons of I troops stationed In 10 II English and anti and th Ih soldiers now DOW at TIt lien Tales t Pekin semi In shantung and Manchuria will quire tens or of thousands ot of i t tsa j 1 sa I ha Ft m tie Importing houses ho I hate learned h how th flour I is arr tile Inc rail JI I I II put up III I cloth Iloth sacks rica ot of fifty pound Cash ant Ill I ihus retailed the country Ih fh la and In the mills of i The flour nour k r ut over lb the M in n to for 1 a freight rate rata of 01 t J i per ton It rea h hs her a of t cents tad upward r lv h hut put ut on It and this I le materIally i Ii 11 creased by the freight to 10 the r ml malt makes It a luxury to most maet Iol Ol Indeed the cakes which were werl made ot of wheat flour ur now nw made of lr ripe roe and only d over tit Ith I wheat at flour Such luch cak uk 4 are for tor val valon fin on almost every orner They RIt nr of th the and eh tr bf 01 an apple and ami look not Mt unlike one OM They are ano boiled and It J as I lolled boiled fond that most moat 0 of our flour whIch to ChIna is II eaten The Chinese ChIneN do not knew what breed is III There Is III but little pastry or rake Biscuits nr not nol seen anti and such urh thin things as coffee corPe and rl rolls lIlI are diver eaten oU outside the houses housell of the ht foreigners The American flour Is II tAr superior U to that multi made by the Chinese The Chi ace flour nour hu has a dark yellow color and rr for this reason the people do not like n It m Vanes CM now Ilot FLOUR On the farms of at the Interior the wheat I is ground between stones whIch are turned tuned about b by the women of the family In all the small amaH towns tonne there Ire are little flour mills T one ant ot of these theM the h other day It II was moved by two 1 f buffaloes each searing wooden t I 1 4 big all as a m 1111 o or r ever his rK 1 nand him him as h drugged around th the I v mill atones The atones tonell wert weer ot of the theIla thedie Ila die of the largest cart They rested one on the top of the other OUIta and the grain wu was a sort ot of a boxlike funnel Into A hole In the top stone the flour flowing out At the bot Oln In the suns IMme room rooth two Iwo IlI hunt lt i naked Chinese were wre bolting the t meal ll I the lolling cloth 11 by rolling tI Les k ui forth A lo log to which It was They kept the cloth movin in by up and down u upon on pegs 1 h FI Iii Ih log Ing I Sur III II h I n I nr rim thA th roller patent proc NOo NOot t 1 I lie be doing dolne a bIrr business It hw put Up UI b bl IlL a pt American Iller Whit Ws the ot of American It hat nil all the latest on II eta etao al and and It I I em am tOld As gOOd as Rn any mill to In Mum dip though not s co large It ha st about by ly hints ol 1 by capital and will I I 1 t ash lIh Chinese wheat The visited the United tut currying Ia rr two or M three thrle bushels of at wh Ih r with the t to 10 lice r u II n sou d t f it j 1 T J r C 1 1 I 1 I t tt j I 1 f 1 t t r 1 X rIC IC 1 i 7 r I r j jJ jT jt t I Ii II y IJ J J T i t r I r J I f I 1 ir l 9 f Gr t s sM sr 1 c v i ir t tJi r r M r r I I rI i CHINESE GRIST MILL f F The rhe Is Ie GroUnd to III TU IId by Women I r L I I ess of at flour grinding In InterIor China Chin Nearl early ever every flour store hn ot of this kind In the rear nod sometimes It a dozen dOlen sets Itta of c atones will be moved by byall byas all as many buttocks bullocks A IlIO FLOUR MILL The fh ani only modern flour mills of at China nr at Shanghai and It at on the about nUI mites mile north of here Th The mill will soon I f would work equally well with lb grain The amount brought waa al lid ad small mall that no teat could au III be made but there la III no doubt as to the success ot of the undertaking ma DIO DREAD BREAD BASKET Ont One ot of the bl big bread baskets of 01 the Chinese empire II the hI great erlat plain which extends north of lC the Panes ant Ther are n hundreds of mites II ot of this re irion flee are t th mho h The 1111 fi from rn north r hio to south Is as long III as from Ne New York to Cleveland It la III almost a 81 wide wid as al from Crom New pw York to Pittsburg and a great part of oC It II con tarns good wheat what soil ot of the land 1 is too high for tor Irrigation but the mil Is so rIch that In ordinary seasons I It produces goat crops J I had u chat the other da day with Capt W tit w v Viii the adviser to Sheng the hI head ef the Chinese Imperial railways Capt RIch has traveled over most of the empire surveying railroads ad and reporting on mina and other mat matera era rH for lie Ile Is tram from Minneapolis and aught tu to kh knew wheat when he be sees It II foI ld hit ha The wheat I fields ot of lice great gat plain m me of at the bonanza anaa farms lanna ot of th Ih Dakotas nakata rhey extend on and on far tor miles are aN no and no hut but wheat wheat wheat and there I is II a clump ot of tree Ire Rach h or of the tree rp clumps marks mark a village III awl ranging In III dae from lOm a tow houses up UI to 10 hundl hundreds Th The farm larm I pr ers Ih live In the villages and go out from I tern t to their work The landia owned In email patches but to 10 the arranger It I has hns no visible b Is III the country thickly populated Ye Tee replied Capt Much fore morp thickly than I 1 supposed at first I 1 as 1111 ed at the thc number or of people In a village The families are large larre and yon end right or ten len persons In one OM Nearly f every village malre belongs to toa toa a Ian clan or family Jt It hall its Ita head had men who act Rrt all as their governors and who are ant well II putted on all matters connected wilh their localities J I talked with many man manof of Ih then aid mn They told me that It took all th the wheat they could raise ralee to td the Ihl local population They could coull nol In vit e the me any cement a t In en ex porI You see r I was IO looking ki up P frIght for a possible railroad J I asked them what hat they did when they ther had a hilt big crop ro They answered that thol they stored It In public granaries against the tines of oC famine lO w TIm THE J T During a houseboat trip up III the valley I a wheel not to 10 large as that or of the KlIt plain but big Mouth enough to show me something or of wheAt culture th lh is III In small l latches atch It I Ic la c In It a way that would surprise Ill or farmers larme The grain is II 1 cowed In seed tJ And the stalks transplanted t plant by h plant like ilkI ripe lire Th stalks ar are set Itt out to In rows rowa about six Ix Inches In little bunches bunch ot of live five fiver 01 r six Ix stalks talk The crop rop 18 kept tIM free from weeds It Is III hoed end and sprinkled with whit liquid manure mallur In the larger wheat hat regions r whIch saw 81 th the wheat is I sown IOwn with rude rudl drills which drop three rows at a time crop rop la hood and ally cultivated although the plowIng I to very er shallow ILANT ORAm ORAIN IN Several d miles above here In th II 1 valley III the farmers plant their wheat In hills hilla They hoe It regu v u I q qIA I M IA and aall wM lIt It They cut t It with a sickle and ana flail dall It oat Nt on Ii a door they have a curious U way of oC manu manur Ing In the wheat They feed the crop rather than Utan the land laad The dr dry manure U Ja tb the droppings of 01 cows r F buffaloes buffon Little girls run about through the fields and along the tbt tads road and gather up this filthy Ith tuft with their bands banda Tb They brio bring It horn In bAlk baskets and there thue mould It Il Into hails III which they thru throw against Ute the walls ot of the house As the balls strike tb they flatten out into InCo grist tat splotches about the th thickness of a rat fat buckwheat cake anti and stick to the wall When WIIt dry they Are pulled off and plied up As I th the time for tor planting whet wheat approaches th these I I manure rak are G In layers lara I with dirt een them Over the whole straw Is III spread and the pile is III set lilt lire fine fineto to The cakes smolder w th hum burn human burnand an and the amok is III so filtered through the th thI dirt that It 11 the moat ot of the fer Pr ashes In It At the and 11 tb the ashes ubell and dirt form torm a finely pulverised sand sandor or dust dut This Thill I is mIl mixed with the th wheat wheal and nl by the handful in 10 the hills Th The mixture U la such that a 1 handful ot of dirt dl rt Is II just tH fit for one olle hill hili hillA hiliA A 1117 I on A COH OHN Inele Hum lIm should profit by the ap approaching amine to In Introduce Amen Amerl Amerlan ran an turn The beggars will be legion and thousands will starve Ship lads of corn Orn might br be sent nt and the food tood thus thul or inter China will our fOur urn market h J la the lIr net or of the will be the thern I Ill rn t of r will thin Hl corn the 11 1 sippi taller ali to th the million I n II Ih h lt Itt std 11 fir of Ui h A la lui 1111 mare than 1 n huff bolt of who hi II the fond that II sill 8 an Ilfe Thera Is tat r r nl flit t has ha as nor I III it II ruin It 11 is III bItt h pr than 1 Wheat rare or an any nth 1 ts rate 1111 ruto nugh supply to fit 11 world Our c run r t our bigg Pe e tal ral I set 1 two to bull every lIr and In In all as nil now or nr this has hall II a value alue almost I thIt or of the wheat what crop rop With th the In rn I demand from Ada It will III b worth much more and the area can lw h he I e fl Increased that WI we tin cot feed the II At present about of If our corn is II consumed In the I States while about half our wheat is IN I exported In the future there will b bas lt I all as great 1 a demand for tor corn ail as tr for wheat THE TIIE FA FAMINE AN AC I WEDGE WE The famine should be the opening wedge There will ire 1141 a grf great at I demand for cheap bread AntI and If cOrn can hi be sent out nt at a low price p it II itcan OlIn can be sold Bold A large amount could rould h b given aWRY away at n a profit The cooks hr hen RN are Into 1 a trades union or 01 which stretches throughout th empire Jt If a few ot of these cooks kR Wet 1 taught no now to prepare the r f the publiC restaurants thE food fond tall h soon loon become popular It H could rould b given Jhen out through the famine hn and charitable restaurants restaurant at 11 such are often otten established by th tiro Chinese and In this way might get Pt n I tool foothold hold which would be permanent So tar far our people have not net Id ed till this market marker Some of rh Ih ChIn ChInh h n w In 1 II t t n n N 1 was RI only teat lut year that on in of according to John the consul At al Cheton sent lin en to the States for 01 III bushel or of our corn lie offered 1 to In Ill pay dollars lit In tor or it I It was R In tn ten weeks ut standing this IhlA Consul not find nn an who take l the l order lit He thE offer t to Iii the slate department lit at Washington but bUl not no reply Ell Either the state department could not find an American who cared rafIl to sell lien to OO bushels buhel of corn at a bushel or what ht Is II more likely It did not think th the matter worth notice In Inclosing closing 1011 his hili report to the department ll said Id It ll no one wanted to sell corn yet v this niter was for fifteen hundred tons and II if carried through It would l hot huv opened up a market ot of twenty twentynine nine million people who on that article of oC diet J fowler ler says that the people ot of hr know all about corn orn They The ruts n CI deal but there was u II dip 1111 r P of 01 crops lat last year ar and the pres I I ant nl I la snort a Chin corn orn cornin In was third and still It wu was bringing enough to lead to this offer orter ot of lY IZ i a bUlb bushel I for tor fifteen hun decd tons of 01 an article the merchants pan I MI not seen Two other large lare orders w r re at hc h same aam time limp and lind that part of at I thina was a IJ apparently ready for American corn The state de department ant and the agricultural dt dr should certainly look Into the present situation and our American may mar be able abl to work It at a profit The fhe U II not a small lanaI one It the demand f r corn should be 10 o great as to raise ral the prig 6 ants n per bushel Iu hd It I Mould Inc Increase t the e vane alJ set J LII e rom corn cro crap or of the United by the tb enormous amount of ATE A MAD IAD DOGAn DOG DOGAn An attempt was made a few tew years ago afO to Introduce our corn In Euro Europe It tailed failed largely huel through the dices dlo ot of the and others against 1 a change |