Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . ssible, even higher and more intensive culture practices thanon the Tokyo plain, there being less land not carrying a wintercrop. Fig. 17 shows how closely the crops crowd the houses andshops. Here were many cement-lined cisterns or shelteredreservoirs for collecting manures and preparing fertilizers, andthe appearance of both soil and crops showed in a marked mannerto what advantage. We passed a garden of nearly an acre entirelydevoted to English violets just coming into full bloom. They weregrown in long parall
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . ssible, even higher and more intensive culture practices thanon the Tokyo plain, there being less land not carrying a wintercrop. Fig. 17 shows how closely the crops crowd the houses andshops. Here were many cement-lined cisterns or shelteredreservoirs for collecting manures and preparing fertilizers, andthe appearance of both soil and crops showed in a marked mannerto what advantage. We passed a garden of nearly an acre entirelydevoted to English violets just coming into full bloom. They weregrown in long parallel east and west beds about 3 feet wide. Onthe north edge of each bed was erected a rice-straw screen 4 feethigh which inclined to the south, overhanging the bed at an angleof some thirty-five degrees, thus forming a sort of oven-tentwhich reflected the sun, broke the force of the wind and checkedthe loss of heat absorbed by the soil. The voyage from Kobe to Moji was made between 10 in themorning, February 24th, and of February 25th, over a 46 FIRST GLIMPSES OF JAPAN. WINTER DRESS 47
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