Excerpt from Reports on Trade at the Treaty Ports, Vol. 15: For the Year 1879 October 1873, I have the honour to hand you my Statistical Report for the year 1879 upon the trade carried on under Treaty Regulations at the Treaty Ports of China. The year 1879, after two years of comparative dulness, will be remembered as one of great prosperity, in which the cultivators of the soil participated quite as much as the Native and Foreign merchants. Almost all the principal articles of trade, products of the soil, whether staples of exportation or of' home consumption, were produced in plentiful cr0ps, exceeding, in many instances, those of ordinary good years. The famine-stricken northern provinces have been fast recovering, and are partially under cultivation, and although during the period under review the kaoliang crop to a certain degree failed, its deficiency was fully supplied by an abundant wheat harvest. In the provinces intersected by the Yangtze, as well as in the remaining central provinces, there were excellent crops of Tea, Silk, and Cotton. In Formosa also the Sugar, Tea, and Camphor crops were beyond expectation, and the same may be repeated with regard to the chief Exports of the southern provinces, Sugar, Silk, Tea, and Cassia, all of which were produced abundantly. 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.