Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . ounds per first cutting of this hill herbage is mainly used on the ricefields as green manure, trampled into the mud between the rowsafter the manner seen in Fig. 98. The man had been with basketand sickle to gather green herbage wherever he could and hadbrought it to his rice field. The day was in July and extremelysultry. We came upon him wading in the water half-way to hisknees, carefully laying the herbage between alternate rows of 184 THE UTILIZATION OF WASTE rice, one handful in each place, with ti
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . ounds per first cutting of this hill herbage is mainly used on the ricefields as green manure, trampled into the mud between the rowsafter the manner seen in Fig. 98. The man had been with basketand sickle to gather green herbage wherever he could and hadbrought it to his rice field. The day was in July and extremelysultry. We came upon him wading in the water half-way to hisknees, carefully laying the herbage between alternate rows of 184 THE UTILIZATION OF WASTE rice, one handful in each place, with tips overlapping. This done,he took the attitude seen in the illvistration and, gathering thematerials into a compact bunch, pressed it beneath the surfacewith his foot. The two hands smoothed the soft mud over thegrass and righted the disturbed spears of rice in the two adjacenthills. Thus, foot following foot, one bare length ahead, the suc-ceeding bunches of herbage were submerged until the last had beenreached. He was renting the land at 40 kan of rice per tan, and his usual. Fig. 98. — Japanese farmer trampling green herbage for fertilizer into the waterand mud between rows of rice. yield was 80 kan. This is 44 bushels of 60 pounds per acre. Inunfavourable seasons his yield might be less, but still his rentwould be 40 kan per tan, unless it was clear that he had done allthat could reasonably be expected of him in securing the second and third cuttings of herbage from the genya landsin Japan are used for the preparation of compost applied on thedry-land fields in the autumn or in the spring of the followingseason. Some of these lands are pastured, but approximately10,185,500 tons of green herbage grown and gathered from thehills contributes much of its organic matter and all of its ash to GENYA LANDS 185 enrich the cultivated fields. Such wild growth areas in Japan arethe commons of the near-by villages, to which the people are freely-admitted for the purpose of cu
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