Photograph by P. H. Dorsett, courtesy U. S. Department of Agriculture

HULLING AND DRYING WALNUTS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF LI KE CIIUANG, IN CHILI PROVINCE

The nuts are picked from the trees, stacked in cone-shaped piles and covered with millet straw or some similar plant material. They remain in these piles for 8 to 10 days and are then hulled by hand, principally by women and children, who receive two coppers per basket of hulled nuts.

In fields adjacent to the tea plantations jasmine plants are trained over trellises. The fragrant flowers are used to flavor the finer grades of tea leaves. The cultivation of tea is one of China's greatest industries (see text, page 491).

SHANTUNG COOLIES TRUNDLING WHEELBARROW-LOADS OF GARLIC TO MARKET

Photograph by Joseph H. Ehlers

A complete list of the vegetables exposed for sale in a large Chinese market such as that at Shanghai would require several pages of print, but among the garden produce most in evidence are two kinds of onions, the indigenous bulbless and the imported bulb variety; many kinds of cabbage, crisp lettuce, clover shoots (a great delicacy among Chinese epicures), tomatoes, carrots, and radishes. There are also red and white turnips, three kinds of mustard, string beans, yellow beans, red beans, winter peas laboriously trained to canes, beets, artichokes, parsnips, ginger roots, the last cultivated since very ancient times. All these vegetables, though most carefully grown, are somewhat tasteless and watery compared to ours.

Photograph by Charles R. Frazier "PIGS IS FREIGHT" FOR HUMAN BURDEN-BEARERS IN CANTON

The average farmer can afford to eat pork only once a year-at the New Year festival-and beef even more rarely, if ever. Goats are raised for their skins (see, also, text, page 499).

Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams

GATHERING GRASS FOR FUEL, WHERE COAL IS TOO EXPENSIVE

In the northern provinces of China the rank grass that grows on graves (see illustration, page 478) is cut for fuel, a task usually delegated to the children of the farm household.

PIGS LAID OUT FOR SALE

At the Peking market the pigs are placed along the side of the road, their four feet closely tied together. After inspecting the animals the buyer makes his offer, but usually two are made-one spoken, for the benefit of near-by listeners, the other, made by signs with the hand hidden in the seller's sleeve, which is the actual offer. When a bargain is made a stick is put between the pig's feet and it is carried off, head down and squealing, to the slaughterhouse (see, also, page 500).