'Tea 



Cotton 



Hemp 



Indigo 



Tobacco 



1. The mulberry are shown with the cocoons. 



2. It is likely that some amount of tea leaves was not properly calculated. 



Thus, by comparing the yields of the most important of the above crops of 1912, with their 

 predecessors of 1887, it may be noted that the rice accomplished an increase of 26 per cent., the 

 barley 38 per cent., the naked barley 39 per cent, and the wheat 70 per cent. As to cotton and 

 indigo, it is observed that their outputs, contrary to those of other crops, fell off to a large extent, 

 as seen in the above tabic. The reason is the effects of imports ; and though this is regretable, 

 we note, on the other hand, that such crops as mulberry, fruit trees, vegetable, peanuts, peppermint, 

 lily bulb and towel gourd, have remarkably increased. 



III. SILK INDUSTRY. 



In recent years, among all the industries, tlie silk industry has accomplished a most remarkable 

 development. Raw silk, undoubtedly, holds the most important position in our export trade and 



