Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . Flu. 120. - Two larae poaiui( calios niul a pnpor doniijiilin U<r i-orita,iiimg the oilioutside a village mill, Shantung. AMOUNT OF SOIL ADDED 227 thatched shelter standing behind the grandfather of a grandson was carrying the ])r(^[)are(l fertilizer to the gardenarea seen in Fig. 122, where the father was worl<iiig it into thesoil. The greatest j)ains an^ taken, both in reducing tin; ])roductto a fine powder and in spreading and incorporating it with thesoil, for one of the maxims of soil man
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . Flu. 120. - Two larae poaiui( calios niul a pnpor doniijiilin U<r i-orita,iiimg the oilioutside a village mill, Shantung. AMOUNT OF SOIL ADDED 227 thatched shelter standing behind the grandfather of a grandson was carrying the ])r(^[)are(l fertilizer to the gardenarea seen in Fig. 122, where the father was worl<iiig it into thesoil. The greatest j)ains an^ taken, both in reducing tin; ])roductto a fine powder and in spreading and incorporating it with thesoil, for one of the maxims of soil management is to make eachsquare foot of field or garden the equal of every other in its powerto produce. In this manner each little holding is mad(! to yield thehighest returns jjossible under the conditions the husbandman isable to Fig. 121. - IuKiri/.iiig doKicciitcd hurnuii excnita preparatory for uwo in gardenfertilization, Shantung. From one portion of the area being fitted, a crop of artemisiahad been harvested, giving a gross return at the rate of $ peracre, and from another leeks had been taken, bringing a grossreturn of $ per acre. Chinese celery was the crop for whichthe ground was now being fitted. The apjjlication of soil as a fertilizer to the fields of (Jhina,whether derived from the subsoil or from the silts and organicmatter of canals and rivers, must have played an important partin the permanency of agriculture in the Far East, for all suchadditions have been positive accretions to the eflective soil,increasing its depth and carrying to it all plant food elements. Ifnot more than one-half of the weight of compost applied to the 228 IN THE SHANTUNG PROVINCE fields of Shantung is highly fertilized soil, the rates of applicationobserved would, in a thousand years, add more than 2,000,000po
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