Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . ridge, leaving a strip 16 inches wide, seen in the uppersection, (1) for tillage, (2) then fertilization and (3) finally the rowof cotton planted just before the wheat was harvested. Againstthe furrow on each side was a row of Windsor beans, seen in the OTHER MULTIPLE CROPPING 235 lower view, hiding the furrow, which was matured some time afterthe wheat was harvested and before the cotton was very large. Alate autumn crop sometimes follows the windsor beans after aperiod of tillage and fertilization, making four
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . ridge, leaving a strip 16 inches wide, seen in the uppersection, (1) for tillage, (2) then fertilization and (3) finally the rowof cotton planted just before the wheat was harvested. Againstthe furrow on each side was a row of Windsor beans, seen in the OTHER MULTIPLE CROPPING 235 lower view, hiding the furrow, which was matured some time afterthe wheat was harvested and before the cotton was very large. Alate autumn crop sometimes follows the windsor beans after aperiod of tillage and fertilization, making four in one year. Withsuch a succession fertilization for each crop and an abundance ofsoil moisture are required to give the largest returns from the another plan winter wheat or barley may grow side by sidewith a green crop, such as the Chinese clover {Medicago denticulata,Willd.) for soil fertilizer, as was the case in Fig. 127, to be turnedunder and fertilize for a crop of cotton planted in rows on eitherside of a crop of barley. After the barley had been harvested the. Fig. 127. - Turning urulcr ,\ rrop of Chinese clover for green nianitre, grown with, barley and to be followed by cotton. ground it occupied would be tilled and further fertilized, and whenthe cotton was nearing matiu-ity a crop of rape might be grown,from which salted cabbage would be prepared for winter use. Multiple crops are grown as far north as Tientsin and Peking,generally wheat, maize, large and small millet and soy beans, andthis, too, where the soil is less fertile and where the annual rainfallis only about 25 inches. Fig. 128 shows one of these fields as itappeared June 14th, where two rows of wheat and two of largemillet were planted in alternating pairs, about 28 inches wheat was ready to harvest but the straw was unusuallyshort because growing on a light sandy loam in a season of excep-tional drought. The piles of pulverized dry-earth compost seen between the 236 ORIENTALS CROWD TI
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