. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. AN INDIAN CAMEL CART ¥. i n ..,.%^^M. TRAVEL IN INDIAHow the author and his friends made the trip from Jeypore to Amber LEAVES FROM AN INDIA NOTE-BOOK 267 Of course, with our dense population, land is high and our^stem of farming expensive. Good irrigated wet land, usedchiefly for rice, is worth from $166 to $500 per acre, renting for$20 to $25; dry land sells for $17 to $133 per acre and rentefor from $3 to $5. It is commonly said that
. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. AN INDIAN CAMEL CART ¥. i n ..,.%^^M. TRAVEL IN INDIAHow the author and his friends made the trip from Jeypore to Amber LEAVES FROM AN INDIA NOTE-BOOK 267 Of course, with our dense population, land is high and our^stem of farming expensive. Good irrigated wet land, usedchiefly for rice, is worth from $166 to $500 per acre, renting for$20 to $25; dry land sells for $17 to $133 per acre and rentefor from $3 to $5. It is commonly said that a man and hisfamily should make a living on two acres, and the usual one-man farm consists of 5 to 10 acres of wet land or 30 to 50 ofdry. The wet land farmers are generally renters, the othersowners. Of course, you have noticed that no horses are usedon the farms, nothing but bullocks; nor do I think that horseswill be used for a long time to come. We are making someprogress in introducing better methods of farmiog. Little,of course, can be done with bulletins where such a smallpercentage of the people can read, but demonstration farmshave proved quite successful, and the government is mu
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