Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . ost iiuhlibly in i-heir practice. If weand they can ])erpetuate the essentials of this |) at a largesaving of human elTort, or per{)etually secure the final r(>sidt insome more expeditious and less laborious way, most im]) will luive been made. When we went north to the Shantung province the Kiangsu 230 COTTON SOWED IN WHEAT 231 and. Chekiang farmers wore engaged in another oi their time-saving practices. This was the ])lanting of cotton in wheat fieldsbefore the wheat was quite r
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . ost iiuhlibly in i-heir practice. If weand they can ])erpetuate the essentials of this |) at a largesaving of human elTort, or per{)etually secure the final r(>sidt insome more expeditious and less laborious way, most im]) will luive been made. When we went north to the Shantung province the Kiangsu 230 COTTON SOWED IN WHEAT 231 and. Chekiang farmers wore engaged in another oi their time-saving practices. This was the ])lanting of cotton in wheat fieldsbefore the wheat was quite ready to harvest. In the sections ofthese two provinces which we visited most of the wheat and barh^ywere sowed broa(h;ast on narrow raises! lands, mmxr, 5 feet wide,with liurrows betw(Mn, after the matuier seen in Fig. 123, in theimmediate foreground of which is shown a reservoir on whosebank is installed one of the four-man foot-power irrigation pumpsin use to flood the nursery rice bed close by on the right. Thenarrow lands of broadcasted wheat extend back from the reservoir. Flo. 123. - across reservoir and four-man foot-powor puini) at fields ofgrain sowed liroudcast in narrow bods. toward the farmsteads which dot the landscape, and on tlie leftstands one of the J)ump shelters near the canal bai)k. To save time, or lengthen the growing season of the cottonwhich was to follow, this seed was sown broadcast among thegrain (m the surface, some ten to fifteen days before the wheatwould be harvested. To cover the seed the soil in the furrowsbetween the beds had been sj)aded loose to a depth of 4 or 5inches, finely pulverized, and then with a spade evenly scatteredover the bed, in such a way as to allow it to sift down among thegrain, covering the seed. This earth, so apj)]ied, acts as amulch to conserve the capillary moisture, and permit the soil to •232 ORIENTALS CROWD TIME AND SPACE boconio sulVuiontly tlaniji to gonninate tho sootl before the wheatis liarv
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