Opportune rains had fallen, and the opium crop was good.

More than anything else the district depends for its prosperity upon the opium crop--if the crop is good, money is plentiful.

Maize-cobs last harvest were four times the size of those of the previous harvest, when they were no larger than one's finger.

Wheat and beans were forward; the coming rice crop gave every hope of being a good one.

Food was still dear, and all prices were high, because rice was scarce and dear, and it is the price of rice which regulates the market.