Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . Fio. 156. - Power-wheel shelter oc bank of canal, in Kiangsu province. in curing the crop. The bundles may be shocked in rows alongthe margins of the paddy fields, as seen in Fig. 157, or they may besuspended, heads down, from bamboo poles, as seen in Fig. threshing is accomplished by drawing the heads of therice through the teeth of a metal comb mounted as seen at theright in Fig. 159, near the lower corner, behind the basket, wherea man and woman are occupied in winnowing the-dust and chafffrom the grai
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . Fio. 156. - Power-wheel shelter oc bank of canal, in Kiangsu province. in curing the crop. The bundles may be shocked in rows alongthe margins of the paddy fields, as seen in Fig. 157, or they may besuspended, heads down, from bamboo poles, as seen in Fig. threshing is accomplished by drawing the heads of therice through the teeth of a metal comb mounted as seen at theright in Fig. 159, near the lower corner, behind the basket, wherea man and woman are occupied in winnowing the-dust and chafffrom the grain by means of a large double fan. Fanning mills,built on the principle of those used by our farmers and closelyresembling them, have long been used in both China and the rice is threshed the grain must be hulled before it can REAPING, THRESHING 267. Fig. 157. - Japanese farniora harvesting rice with the old-time sickle.
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