Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . Fid. 151. - A|)i)lyiiig chuff to u rice Ucld an it fertilizer. 262 RICE CULTURE IN THE ORIENT human manure and 22,812,787 tons of compost; and that sheimported 753,074 tons of commercial fertilizers, 7,000 of whichwere phosphates in one form or another. In addition to these shemust have applied not less than 1,404,000 tons of fuel ashes and10,185,500 tons of green manure products, grown on her hill andweed lands, and all these were applied to less than 14,000,000acres of cultivated field. It should be emphasized
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . Fid. 151. - A|)i)lyiiig chuff to u rice Ucld an it fertilizer. 262 RICE CULTURE IN THE ORIENT human manure and 22,812,787 tons of compost; and that sheimported 753,074 tons of commercial fertilizers, 7,000 of whichwere phosphates in one form or another. In addition to these shemust have applied not less than 1,404,000 tons of fuel ashes and10,185,500 tons of green manure products, grown on her hill andweed lands, and all these were applied to less than 14,000,000acres of cultivated field. It should be emphasized that this is donebecause as yet she has found no better way of permanentlymaintaining a fertility capable of feeding her Fig. 152. - Well sweep and quadrangular conical water bucket used for irrigation in Chihli. Besides fertilizing, transplanting and weeding the rice crop,there is the enormous task of irrigation to be maintained untilthe rice is nearly matured. Much of the water used is Ufted byanimal-power and a large share of it by man-power. The portablespool windlass, in Figs. 23 and 107, has been described, and shows the quadrangular cone-shaped bucket and sweepextensively used in Chihli. This man was supplying water suffi-cient for the irrigation of half an acre per day, hfting the water8 feet. The form of pump most used in China and the foot-power forworking it are seen in Fig. 153. Three men working a similarpump are seen in Fig. 133, a closer view of three men working the IKEIGATING RICE 263 foot-power may be seen in Fig. 36, and still another stands adja-cent to a series of flooded fields in Fig. 154. Where this view wastaken the old farmer informed us that two men, with this pimip,li
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