Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . 86 UP THE SI-KIANG, WEST RIVER another was bending the plank to the proper curvature. Thebow-brace consisted of a bamboo stalk carrying the bit at oneend and a shoulder rest at the other. Pressing the bit to its workwith the shoulder, it was driven with the string of a long bowwrapped once around the stalk by drawing the bow back andforth, thus rapidly and readily revolving the bit. The bending of the long, heavy plank, 4 inches thick and 8inches wide, was more simple still. It was saturated with water. Fio. 39.
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . 86 UP THE SI-KIANG, WEST RIVER another was bending the plank to the proper curvature. Thebow-brace consisted of a bamboo stalk carrying the bit at oneend and a shoulder rest at the other. Pressing the bit to its workwith the shoulder, it was driven with the string of a long bowwrapped once around the stalk by drawing the bow back andforth, thus rapidly and readily revolving the bit. The bending of the long, heavy plank, 4 inches thick and 8inches wide, was more simple still. It was saturated with water. Fio. 39. - Wooden fork shaped from tlie limbs of a tree by sim})le means ofsteaining and drying. and one end raised on a support 4 feet above the ground. Abundle of burning rice straw moved along the under side againstthe wet wood had the effect of steaming the wood and the weightof the plank caused it to gradually bend into the shape poles are commonly bent or straightened in this mannerto suit any need and Fig. 39 shows a wooden fork shaped in themanner described from a small tree having three main fork is in the hands of my interpreter and was used by thewoman standing at the right, in turning wheat. When the old ship-builder had finished shaping his plank he GARDENING AXSAMSHUI 87 sat down on the ground for a smoke. His pipe was one joint ofbamboo stem 1 foot long, nearly 2 inches in diameter and open atone end. In the closed end, at one side, a small hole was bored fordraught. A charge of tobacco was placed in the bottom, the lipspressed into the open
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