Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . Fra. 145. - Group of Chinese women pulling rico in a nursery bed, tying the plantsin bundles preparatory to transplanting. cabbage and tobacco plraits with our best macliine methods. InJapan, as seen in Figs. 147 and 148, the women participate in thework of setting the plants more than in China. After the rice has been transplanted its care, unlike that of ourwheat crop, does not cease. It must be hoed, fertilized andwatered. To facilitate the watering all fiekls have been levelled,canals, ditches and drains prov
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . Fra. 145. - Group of Chinese women pulling rico in a nursery bed, tying the plantsin bundles preparatory to transplanting. cabbage and tobacco plraits with our best macliine methods. InJapan, as seen in Figs. 147 and 148, the women participate in thework of setting the plants more than in China. After the rice has been transplanted its care, unlike that of ourwheat crop, does not cease. It must be hoed, fertilized andwatered. To facilitate the watering all fiekls have been levelled,canals, ditches and drains provided, and, to aid in fertilizing andhoeing, the setting has been in rows and in hills in the row. The first working of the rice fields after the transplantipg, aswe saw it in Japan, consisted in spading beiween the hills witha four-tined hoe, apparently more for loosening the soil and aera-tion than for killing weeds. After this treatment the field was gone TRANSPLANTING RICE 257. 1 Hi. I ,|)l:uil iiiu i-iir III (I una. Four views taken from the same point atiiitcr\als of litteen minutes, showing the progress made during forty-fiveminutes. T 258 KICE CULTURE IN THE ORIENT over nj^aiii in tlic mniiiur seen in Ki^. 1 19, where the iniin is usinghis bare iiands to smooth and level the stirred soil, taking care toeradicate every weed, burying them beneath thc^ mud, and tostraighten each liill o[ rice as it is |)a,ssed. Sometimes the fingersare armed with bamboo claws to lacibtate the weeding. Machin-ery in the form of revolving hand cidtiva^tors is now coining intouse in Japan, and two men using these are seen in Fig. 12. Inthese (udtivators the teeth are mountcnl on an axle so as to revolveas the cultivator is |)ushed along the row. Fertilization for the rice crop receives the greatest attention
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