Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and JapanMrs. F.H. King, 1911 - 441 ˹éÒ |
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˹éÒ 198 - A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal: "Water, water, we die of thirst." The answer from the friendly vessel at once came back, "Cast down your bucket where you are.
˹éÒ 198 - Cast down your bucket where you are." A second time the signal, "Water, water; send us water!" ran up from the distressed vessel, and was answered, "Cast down your bucket where you are.
˹éÒ 6 - Irish potatoes at the earliest opportunity in the spring, marketing them when small, and following these with radishes, the radishes with cabbage, realizing from the three crops at the rate of $203 per acre. Nearly 500,000,000 people are being maintained, chiefly upon the products of an area smaller than the improved farm lands of the United States.
˹éÒ 323 - The cultivation of tea in China and Japan is another of the great industries of these nations, taking rank with that of sericulture if not above it in the important part it plays in the welfare of the people. There is little reason to doubt that this industry has its foundation in the need of something to render boiled water palatable for drinking purposes. The drinking of boiled water is universally adopted in these countries as an individually available...
˹éÒ 194 - Europe are pouring into the sea, lakes or rivers and into the underground waters from 5,794.300 to 12,000,000 pounds of nitrogen; 1,881,900 to 4,151,000 pounds of potassium, and 777,200 to 3,057,600 pounds of phosphorus per million of adult population annually, and this waste we esteem one of the great achievements of our civilization.
˹éÒ 198 - ... and a native mother,) and 19,804 of low castes. For the preservation of personal security, there is a police, with a magistrate at its head, and to which 8147 Thannadars, Naibs, Chokidars, Jemadars, and Burkandazes belong. The climate of Calcutta may be inferred from its situation in a damp hollow, on the banks of one of the largest rivers in the world. Each season has its peculiar dangers ; in the hot months, fevers and cholera prevail, and when the rainy season beVOL.
˹éÒ 209 - In unfavorable seasons his yield might be less but still his rent would be forty kan per tan unless it was clear that he had done all that could reasonably be expected of him in securing the crop.
˹éÒ 13 - ... they are housed against waste from weather, compounded with intelligence and forethought and patiently labored with through one, three, or even six months, to bring them into the most efficient form to serve as manure for the soil or as feed for the crop.
˹éÒ 4 - The average of seven Chinese holdings which we visited and where we obtained similar data indicates a maintenance capacity for those lands of 1,783 people, 212 cattle or donkeys and 399 swine, — 1,995 consumers and 399 rough food transformers per square mile of farm land.
˹éÒ iii - PEEFACE By DR. LH BAILEY. We have not yet gathered up the experience of mankind in the tilling of the earth; yet the tilling of the earth is the bottom condition of civilization. If we are to assemble all the forces and agencies that make for the final conquest of the planet, we must assuredly know how it is that all the peoples in all the places have met the problem of producing their sustenance out of the soil.