Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . as to be cool. Here, as in China and Manchuria, nearly all crops are plantedin rows, including the cereals, such as wheat, rye, barley and traversed first a flat marshy country with sandy soil and waternot more than 4 feet below the surface where, on the lowest areasa close ally of our wild flower-de-luce was in bloom. Wheat wascoming into head, but corn and millet were smaller than in Man-churia. We had left New Wiju at in the morning and at passed from the low land into a hill country with n
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . as to be cool. Here, as in China and Manchuria, nearly all crops are plantedin rows, including the cereals, such as wheat, rye, barley and traversed first a flat marshy country with sandy soil and waternot more than 4 feet below the surface where, on the lowest areasa close ally of our wild flower-de-luce was in bloom. Wheat wascoming into head, but corn and millet were smaller than in Man-churia. We had left New Wiju at in the morning and at passed from the low land into a hill country with narrow valleys. THATCHED ROOFS 321 Scattering young pine, seldom more than 10 to 25 feet high, occu-pied the slopes and, as we came nearer, the hills were seen to beclothed with many small oak, the sprouts clearly not more thanone or two years old. Roofs of dwellings in the country wereusually thatched with straw, laid after the manner of shingles, asmay be seen in Fig. 185, where the hills beyond show the low treegrowth referred to, but unusually dense. Bundles of pine boughs,. Fig. 185. Group of Korean farm-houses, with thatched roofs and earthen walls,standing at the foot of wooded hills. stacked and sheltered from the weather, were common along theway and evidently used for fuel. At we passed through the first of many tunnels along theroute, the longest requiring thirty seconds for the passing of thetrain. The valley beyond was occupied by fields of wheat wherebeans were planted between the rows. Thus far none of the fieldshad been as thoroughly tilled and well cared for as those seen inChina, nor were the crops as good. Farther along we passed hillswhere the pines were all of two ages, one set about 30 feet high L 322 MANCHURIA AND KOREA and the others 12 to 15 feet or less, among which were numerousoak sprouts. Quite possibly these are used as food for the wildsilkworms. In some places appearances indicate that the oak andother deciduous growth, with the grass,
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