Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . Fig. 5. - Pear trees at Akashi Experiment Station, Japan. Pears protected bypaper bags. Special form of pruning advised by Prof. Ono, standing on the left,with Prof. Tokito. The trees branch below rather than at the level of the trollis. 33 34 FIRST GLIMPSES OF JAPAN of rice or other straw, which is extensively used in Japan as a,ground cover with various crops. When so used it is carefully laidin handfuls, the straws being kept parallel as when the traveller coming from a country of 160-acre farms,
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . Fig. 5. - Pear trees at Akashi Experiment Station, Japan. Pears protected bypaper bags. Special form of pruning advised by Prof. Ono, standing on the left,with Prof. Tokito. The trees branch below rather than at the level of the trollis. 33 34 FIRST GLIMPSES OF JAPAN of rice or other straw, which is extensively used in Japan as a,ground cover with various crops. When so used it is carefully laidin handfuls, the straws being kept parallel as when the traveller coming from a country of 160-acre farms, withroads four rods wide; of cities with broad streets and residences,with green lawns and ample back yards; a country too where the. Fig. 6. Low-brauclling pear orchard with ])(.ard protected by paper bags, atAkashi Experiment Station, Japan. cemeteries are large and beautiful parks, the contrast presentedby the over-crowding which he notices in the very first days oftravel in these old countries forces itself upon his attention. Thecities are over-crowded with houses and shops, and these withpeople and wares; the country is over-crowded with fields and thefields with crops; while in Japan the over-crowding is greatestof all in the cemeteries, where the gravestones almost toucheach other; and in the surrounding country dwellings, gardensor rice fields contest the tiny allotted areas too closely to leaveeven footpaths between. A CROWDED LAND 35
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