Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . province of Sechuen the principal cropsgrown are beans, barley, buckwheat, hemp, maize, millet, opium,rice, secamum, sugar cane, tobacco and wheat. Beans are sownearly in October and harvested about May. Barley and buck-wheat are sown about the beginning of November and gatheredabout the middle of March. HOW SUGAR IS MADE. Hemp, of which there are various kinds
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . province of Sechuen the principal cropsgrown are beans, barley, buckwheat, hemp, maize, millet, opium,rice, secamum, sugar cane, tobacco and wheat. Beans are sownearly in October and harvested about May. Barley and buck-wheat are sown about the beginning of November and gatheredabout the middle of March. HOW SUGAR IS MADE. Hemp, of which there are various kinds, is sown in the spring,but the seeds do not require renewal. The stumps are each yearcovered with manure after the stalks have been broken off. Thefirst and best crop is gathered about the end of the Chinese year,the second in the third moon, and the third in the sixth or seventhmoon. It is considered far better to tear off the stalks than to cutthem, but as this method is slower and more troublesome, it is notused among the larger growers. Maize is planted in small quantities all over the province. Itis planted at the end of the third or the beginning of the fourthmoon and takes about one hundred days to ripen. It is sometimes. THE STORMING OF THE SHIKU ARSENAL AT TIEN TSIN
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