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Round The Year With The

Hainan Farmer

WHERE THERE IS NO TIME FOR NOVELTIES

SUCCESSION OF CROPS AND NO INTERVALS

(From Our Own Correspondent]

Kachek, July 29. The people of Hainan. are in the main agricultural, and in tropical island where the growing senson is absolutely" continuous, farming is a strounous business, Ngue of the Leisure of the cold winter months for the man with thelun here, and no rest for diost ka Liam cultivated soil "rither. And I wonder that when we offer flower seeds or plants to fariner families, one or both of two res ponses úfmest immediately comes back We have no time to care" for such things" or, "We have no Tom to plant them both answers very typical of the attitude of mind of the man who must make every-yield sip for sugar. thing count to provide a living for tha family.

show something of the continuous cycle of seedtime and harvest, pres paration and fruition. THE SPRING MONTHS

the Chinese are more consistent thin the westerner in that they divide their four seasons according to the calendar and consider the „first, second and third months as spring, the next three za summer, axi so on. Possibly the lum. coletular ix responsible-Chinese New Year often comes so far along ing January and February, of the a year that in a warm climate spring really does seen to begin theo. A brief sketch of major farm activities during the seasons will

COMING TO THE CENTRAL

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THE PHANTOM OF CRESTWOOD

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After the new year holiday sea- on spring work starts with a rush. This is the time to plant the tuber crop-peanuts, cassava, taro, the hairy, sweet tuber" and sweet potatoes, this latter however being propagated from cuttings of vines 'The two taken off and reset. varieties of sugar cane are also plaùted at this time-ano yielding the large stalks which are used, for inting, "only, the other with the smallor stalks that are crushed to

The bush

beans which grows five or six feet high are planted at this season, too,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1933

SHOWING AT THE KING'S. THE KING AND QUEEN AT THE DERBY

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The above photo taken from Tax Movietone News shows their Majesties the King and Queen of England arriving at Epsom Downs to witnes the Historic Derby. This is being shown with the programme of "Wild Girl" coming to the King's Theatre to-day.

rains In between JOAN CRAWFORD

IN RAIN

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The second and third months are the time to plant indigo and hemp, and millet if a harvest is desired at the little season. Millet in commonly either the duckfoot the or thedogtail" variety, the first times peanuts must be harvested, hearing seed in short stocky head indigo and hemp cut, further crops f four or five compact fruit stalks, af melons put in, and so on, to say the latter in long single heads per nothing of carrying water or work A SOMERSET MAUGHAM haps five or six inches long. Asing the dragon-bonewater wheel

TROPICS TALE soot as these crops are in the if there is not enough rain, and bitter melons and other varieties weeding the rice fields it water is must be started in seedbeds first not standing deep enough in them! and then transplanted, and still to drown out all other vegetation later bamboo racks must be made except the young rice. for them and paper sucks be put around the tiny melens as they form, to ward off insect stings

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and excess of moisture. Melons which do. not climb

the racks must be carefully watch ed on the ground and form. ing fruits laid on beds of straw or covered with paper or otherwise cared for. These months too are the main season for planting other varieties of beans-black beans and green beans for bean sprouts, white

yed beans and yellow beans for the beans themselves, long beans to be eaten pods and'all.

THE SUMMER MONTHS"

The rice harvest usually begins in the fourth month and from that time until the end of the fifth month there is little leisure. The Chinese" have a saying-that a poor man is ilways busy but in the fift. month he is doubly so Perhaps this very press of work makes the observanes of the fifth month feast. all the more general- breathing spell is sadly needed in a lanit. that knows nothing of one rest day in seren. But however that may be, when the intercalary month is a second fifth month, as happened this year, no one could be poisid ed to cherve the fifth month feast

Ewice! Not only do these three

months see the rice harvest, but it is the main millet harvest, the rice Acids must be plowed and "raked," | seedbeds of rice must be planted and the young rien transplanted,

this preparation being of neces gly delayed until the rains come and then going forward with all the speed possible. Farmers with apland" fields must prepare the ground and plant the upland rice at this time, too, so that these fields may havo "the advantage of (Costinved on next column2).

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THE AUTUMN MONTHS

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The autumn months are devoted to the vegetable gardens. The crops put in include leeks, garlic, mus turd, eggplant, Chinese cabbage, etc., principally leafy vegetables rather than tubers. The main ex- option is sweet potatoes, for at this season the sweet potato tubera are planted. The later varieties of peanuts are being harvested also This mere

mention of vegetable gardens sounds like light work, but those familiar with Chinese firm ing methods know the tremendous amount of labour involved in fer- tilizing, watering, hoeing, and pro- tecting from insect and even human ing the putting up of a rude thatch enethies, this latter usually mean- shed in the field and having some member of the family spending the nights on guard

THE WINTER MONTHS

Rain, the Joan Crawford comes to starring vehicle which the King's Theatre on Sunday, is the first of a series of feature films to be made by Lewis Milestone, under his are director-producer

affiliation with nawly formed Joseph M. Schenck and the art Cinema Corporation, and advance reports place it unmistakeably in the category of "All Quiet on the Western Front,"

The Front Page" and other masterpieces of this directorial genius...

The story is a new adaptation by Maxwell Anderson of the famed stage play, which in turn was adapted by John Colton and C. Randolph from the short by W Somerset Maugham. It is known to millions, in fact, it is one of the best-known stories in the Eng tish language.

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John Crawford was loaned United Artists by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer for the leading role, this being, the Brst time a star of her

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Mr. Francis Barry, the honorary organiser, has gathered a display of absorbing interest. The layman stands bemused before the amazing array of materials which have con lained drinks from D.O.R.A. Gold, silver, glass, horn, wood, "treen," leather they wink and flash from their cases

B.C. to

There is a beautiful glass goblet lent by the King, which Queen Elizabeth is said to have used. lovely pink glass; they used it in There is a Greek tasting vessel in Cyprus in the fifth century B.C...

Wassall Bowl for Giants, pr From the peat boge of Ireland was dug the thirteenth-century magnitude has been "let out bymether," and Gargantua himself that company.

And around her would gaze respectfully at..a was has been assembled one of the mail, or "lamb's wool," bowl of greatest caste in years, its members lignum-vita wood, the largest The tenth month maundly brings including Walter Huston, William known (5) gallons), are rice tearvest again, and the Gargar, last season's Boradway That respect would kindle, again

Matt routine of proparing for the next senaation;

Moore, Guy when confronted by the

giant crop. This too is the season for Kibbee, Walter Catleft, Beulah claret bottle (capacity. twenty- planting turnips and squash, this Bondi, Kendal Lee, Ben Hand- eight ordinary bottles) described latter one of the most exacting of ricks and Frederick Howard. And lovingly in the catalogue as Chinese vegetables, refusing to bear ace-artisans were chosen for the triumphant example of the glass- unless planted at this special time. photography art direction, sound blower's craft.” It was an erst- while Duke of Edinburgh who had Sweet potato vinea, gourds, and technique and film editing. most beans and melons. may b The entire company was transit filled to the top. Beside it, în. planted almost any time and some ported to the isthmus upon location charming contrast, are two tiny sort of a crop assured, though of for two months. Which means bottles, Alled, corked and labelled, course some definite seasons of the that "Rain" in its entirety was exactly similar to those made for year will give better yields than photographed on a location which the Queen's doll's house. others, but not so squash-it is the satural replica of its Paco Pago aristocrat of the vegetables and ab

locale. And, like the South Seas solutely refuses to become cheap by

the company was permitted to "go being made common. It is inter-native, with the result that esting to note that the Chines: farmers in this vicinity have change ed their cucumber planting season of late years and plant them now in the eleventh month to get them on the market early in the spring

the year.

realism was attained which would not have been possible in Holly wood, no matter what the artistry. The story, as you probably know, concerns itself with a girl of nox.. several other passengers on a Bouth descript reputation who, with months and hence command 4 better price. Sugar-eane harvest Sca schooner, is marooned on the often begins in the twelfth mouth, small island of Page Pago when and millet and broom corn are cholera breaks out among the crew. planted, but the end of the twelfth And the entire action of the story mouth is sacred to cleaning up the occurs while the quarantine is in house, settling accounts, and pre-effect. The central characters are paring for the one grand Holiday of a brimstone-smelling reformer and the lady of limber morals whom he tries to force into a path of recti Sa the year goes by-and this tude, with a sergeant of marines brief resumé includes no mention siding with the girl and finally of the pig-feeding, poultry raising, winning happiness for her. and cow feeding carried on con- As the title implies, Rain pro tinually, nor of the trips to market vides the real background of the to buy and sell, the making of yarn, Rain, relentless rain falling baskets, trapa and other atensils, for days on snds until the maroon- the constant preparation of fered company is driven near to in tilizer, the cutting of firewood, the sanity. And it is here that the dyeing of cloth, and the sewing picture makes one of its principal for the family, all of which keep appeals. Heretofore, sound re men, women and children busy the production of rainstorms upon the year round. A farmer's year, in screen have left something to be tropical Hainan, is a bus one in- desired. But the newest levelop- deed.

ment of the Western Electric laboratories, called the Wide Range system, has been pictured, with the result that "Rain" introduces the most perfect sound reproduction to date.

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