. The world's commercial products [microform] : a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses. Plant products; Produits naturels; Produits végétaux; Natural products; Botanique agricole; Botany, Economic. 34 The World's Commercial Products retain water to a ckptl. of a few inches. Frequently in natural hollows, where all the sides liavc been terraced, the general effect is that of a huge amphitheatre, which, when the crop is standing appears, at a distance, to have been overgrown with moss. Water must be available at the highest level of tlie rice-tield
. The world's commercial products [microform] : a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses. Plant products; Produits naturels; Produits végétaux; Natural products; Botanique agricole; Botany, Economic. 34 The World's Commercial Products retain water to a ckptl. of a few inches. Frequently in natural hollows, where all the sides liavc been terraced, the general effect is that of a huge amphitheatre, which, when the crop is standing appears, at a distance, to have been overgrown with moss. Water must be available at the highest level of tlie rice-tield, and is led on to the first terrace, when. - m tune it trickles over the e rth bank on to the second, and so on, so that the >vh<,le hillside from top to bottom is , onverted int. i series of very shallow pools separated b}- low vertical steps. Hy diverting the stream, the rice-tields can be dried for purposes of harvesting, etc. Those wiio look upon all natives in the tropics as indolent and without initiative might have reason to modify their opinion somewhat if thev saw some of these terraced rice-helds which have re<iuired enormous, persistent, and well directed action for their formation, and demaiKl constant care for their maintenance in good condition If It is not [.ossible to flood the ricr-lields in a natural wav, bv admitting the water from a stream. th<. (l.,oding has to acconiplisiied by artiricial'means. A simple way is that followed by the Chinaman, whose rice-tield is more of a garden than an actual held. With his mate he takes his stand on the little chke separating his plot from the water at a lower level. Together they repeatedly j Kt dfpwn a small wooden bucket on one side into the water, draw it up, and empty it on the other side on a mat. placed over the young phuits to prevent their being washed away, whence it flows on to the Tu Id. If tlie held is too large to irrigate by hand, he use^ a sort of chain-pump, worked either with a treadmi
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