Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . Fig. 128. - Multiple crops in Chihli - wheat and sorghum, the wheat ripe, to befollowed by soy beans. Piles of compost earth for soy beans. to decay under water until the fibre had been destroyed, and soreduced to a condition in which it could be incorporated with thesoil and applied to the fields. Thus, rich in soluble plant food withnothing to hinder the capillary movement of soil moisture the workproceeded outside the field and the changes could occur unimpededand without interfering with the growth of crops o
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . Fig. 128. - Multiple crops in Chihli - wheat and sorghum, the wheat ripe, to befollowed by soy beans. Piles of compost earth for soy beans. to decay under water until the fibre had been destroyed, and soreduced to a condition in which it could be incorporated with thesoil and applied to the fields. Thus, rich in soluble plant food withnothing to hinder the capillary movement of soil moisture the workproceeded outside the field and the changes could occur unimpededand without interfering with the growth of crops on the this system of combined intertillage and multiple cropping theoriental farmer takes advantage of whatever good may result fromrotation or succession of crops, whether these be physical, vito-chemical or biological. If plants are mutually helpful through closeassociation of their root systems in the soil, as some believe may SAVING WHEAT ROOTS 237. Fio. 129. FiUiiily engaged uj ( iilliiiji, lioin bundles of wlieat, the roots to beused in making compost, Chihli. be the case, this growth of diflorent species in close juxtapositionwould seem to provide the opportunity, but the other advantageswhich have been pointed out are so evident and so important thatthey, rather than this, have doubtless led to the practice described.
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