China : a history of the laws, manners and customs of the people . been in China, with being equal to the task of forming anadequate conception of the intolerable stench which sometimesarises from Chinese fields. In the autumn, when the fields which have already producedtwo rice crops have become perfectly dry, many of the farmersof Kwang-tung prepare portions of their lands for crops ofCha-Yow, or tea-oil. A crop is reaped in the early part of thefollowing spring. I have several times ridden through theagricultural districts of Ea-vune and Tsung-fa, and have alwaysseen great portions of the a
China : a history of the laws, manners and customs of the people . been in China, with being equal to the task of forming anadequate conception of the intolerable stench which sometimesarises from Chinese fields. In the autumn, when the fields which have already producedtwo rice crops have become perfectly dry, many of the farmersof Kwang-tung prepare portions of their lands for crops ofCha-Yow, or tea-oil. A crop is reaped in the early part of thefollowing spring. I have several times ridden through theagricultural districts of Ea-vune and Tsung-fa, and have alwaysseen great portions of the arable lands of these districts coveredwith luxuriant crops of this plant. Its flower is of a paleorange, and impregnates with its fragrance all the surroundingatmosphere. The Chinese ladies anoint their heads with tea-oil, and the demand for it is of course very great. The oil isextracted from the seed of the plant, which, for this purpose, isplaced, after being well pounded, over pots of boiling water tobe steamed and made soft. Wlien in this state, the seed is. xxin.] TEA-OIL—WHEAT—BARLEY. 133 pressed, and the oil flows out. The cakes of pressed seed arecut into small pieces and then reduced to a powder, resemhlingsand. This powder is used as soap I)y the Chinese in washingtheir bodies. Many of the fanners in the southern provinces of Ivwang-tung and Kwang-si prepare tlieir lands so soon as they havereaped their second crop of rice, for crops of wheat and barley. Asin England, wheat and barley are sown broadcast over the seed sown in the autumn yields its harvest in the early partof the following spring, , immediately before the approach ofthe season in which it is necessary to prepare the fields forthe first crop of rice. In the north, however, as the seasonsare almost as well defined as in England, and as, excepting thegreat heat of summer, the climate there is not very dissimilar toour own, the wheat, barley, and corn crops are sown and reapedat and abou
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