Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . if there could bedevised a wardrobe suited to the conditions of these people at asmaller first cost and maintenance expense. Rev. E. A. Evans, ofthe China Inland Mission, for many years residing at Sunking inSzechwan, estimated that a farmers wardrobe, once it wasprocured, could be maintained with an annual expenditure of$2-25 of our currency, this sum procuring the materials for bothrepairs and renewals. The intense individual economy, extending to the smallestmatters, so imiversally practised by these people, h
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . if there could bedevised a wardrobe suited to the conditions of these people at asmaller first cost and maintenance expense. Rev. E. A. Evans, ofthe China Inland Mission, for many years residing at Sunking inSzechwan, estimated that a farmers wardrobe, once it wasprocured, could be maintained with an annual expenditure of$2-25 of our currency, this sum procuring the materials for bothrepairs and renewals. The intense individual economy, extending to the smallestmatters, so imiversally practised by these people, has sustainedthe massive strength of the Mongolian nations through their longhistory, and this trait is seen in their handling of the fuel problem, 126 THE IUEL PHOBLEM as it is in all other lines. In the home of Mrs. Wu, owner andmanager of a 25-acre rice farm in Chekiang province, there was amasonry kang 7 by 7 feet, about 28 inches high, which could bewarmed in winter by building a fire within. The top was fitted formats to serve as couch by day and as a place upon which to. Fig. 59. - A Kiangsu country woman in winter dress. spread the bed at night. In the Shantimg province we visited thehome of a prosperous farmer and here found two kangs in separatesleeping-apartments, both warmed by the waste heat from thekitchen, whose chimney flue passed horizontally under the kangsbefore rising through the roof. These kangs were wide enough tospread the beds upon, about 30 inches high. They were con- CHIMNEY BEDS 12? structed of brick 12 inches square and 4 inches thick. The brickswere made from the clay subsoil taken from the fields, workedinto a plastic mass, mixed with chaff and short straw, dried in thesun, and then laid in a mortar of the same material. These mas-sive kangs are thus capable of absorbing large amounts of thewaste heat from the kitchen during the day, and this is againgiven out in congenial warmth by day and to the beds and sleep-ing-apartments during the night. In
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