Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . FlQ. 189. - Looking across fields of wheat at an eroding liillside over whiclj loreetgrowth ia being allowed to spread. 326 MANCHURIA AND KOREA rainy season had not yet set in, June 23rd. Wheat and the smallgrains were practically all harvested southward of 8ooul and thepeople were everywhere busy with their flails threshing in theopen, about the dwellings or in the fiekls, four flails often beatingtogether on the same lot of grain. As we journeyed southwardthe valleys and the fields became wider and more extensi
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . FlQ. 189. - Looking across fields of wheat at an eroding liillside over whiclj loreetgrowth ia being allowed to spread. 326 MANCHURIA AND KOREA rainy season had not yet set in, June 23rd. Wheat and the smallgrains were practically all harvested southward of 8ooul and thepeople were everywhere busy with their flails threshing in theopen, about the dwellings or in the fiekls, four flails often beatingtogether on the same lot of grain. As we journeyed southwardthe valleys and the fields became wider and more extensive, andthe crops, as well as the cultural methods, were clearly Fia. 190. - Korean swinging scoop for irrigation where tlie water is raised3 or 4 feet. Neither the foot-power, animal-power, nor the wooden chainpuin]) of the Chinese were observed in Korea for lifting water,but we saw many instances of the long-handled, spoonlike swingingscoop hung over the water by a cord from tall tripods, after themanner seen in Fig. 190, each operated by one man and appar-ently with high efficiency for low lifts. Two instances also wereobserved of the form of lift seen in Fig. 155, where the manwalks the circumference of the wheel, so commonly observed inJapan. Much hemp was being grown in southern Korea but every- RAILROAD LUNCH 327 where on very small isolated areas which flecked the landscapewith the deepest green, each little field probably representingthe crop of a single family. * It was when our train reached Fusan after a hot anddusty ride. The service had been good and fairly comfortable butthe ice-water tanks of American trains were absent, t
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