Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . , but clearly rational and effective. Here nearlyall if not all fertilizer compost is ])re])ared in the villages andcarried to the fields, however distant these may be. Rev. T. J. League very kindly accompanied us to Chengyangon the railway, from which we walked some 2 miles back to aprosperous rural village to see their methods of preparing thiscompost fertilizer. It was toward the close of the afternoon beforewe reached the village, and from all directions husbandmen were NATIONAL RESOURCES 217 returning from t
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . , but clearly rational and effective. Here nearlyall if not all fertilizer compost is ])re])ared in the villages andcarried to the fields, however distant these may be. Rev. T. J. League very kindly accompanied us to Chengyangon the railway, from which we walked some 2 miles back to aprosperous rural village to see their methods of preparing thiscompost fertilizer. It was toward the close of the afternoon beforewe reached the village, and from all directions husbandmen were NATIONAL RESOURCES 217 returning from the fields, some with hoes, some with ploughs,some with drills over their shoulders and others leading donkeys orcattle, and similar customs obtain in Japan, as seen in Fig. were mostly the younger men. When we reached the villagestreets the older men, all bare-headed, as were those returningfrom the fields, and usually with their queues tied about the crown,were chatting, enjoying their pipes of tobacco. In the matter of conservation of national resources here is one. Fia. 117. - Home after the days work, in Jupan. of the greatest opportunities open to all civilized nations. Whatmight not be done in the United States with a fund of $57,000,000annually, the market price of the raw tobacco leaf, and the land,the labour and the capital expended in getting the product tothe men who puff, breathe and perspire the noxious product intothe air everyone must breathe, and who bespatter the streets,sidewalks, the floor of every public place and conveyance, andbefoul the million spittoons, smoking-rooms and smoking-cars, allunnecessary and should be uncalled for, but whose installationand upkeep the non-user as well as the user is forced to pay for, and 218 IN THE SHANTUNG PROVINCE this in a country of, for and by the people. This costly, filthy,selfish tobacco habit should be outgrown. Let it begin in everynew home, where the mother helps the father in refusing to setthe example
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