Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . 40 FIRST GLIMPSES OF JAPAN. ROADS AND READJUSTED FIELDS 41 scattered holdings broken into such small areas, the JapaneseGovernment has passed laws for the adjustment of farm lands,which have been in force since 1900. They provide for theexchange of lands; for changing boundaries; for changing orabolishing roads, embankments, ridges or canals and for altera-tions in irrigation and drainage which would ensure that therewould be larger areas and that the channels and roads would bestraightened and made less numerous
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . 40 FIRST GLIMPSES OF JAPAN. ROADS AND READJUSTED FIELDS 41 scattered holdings broken into such small areas, the JapaneseGovernment has passed laws for the adjustment of farm lands,which have been in force since 1900. They provide for theexchange of lands; for changing boundaries; for changing orabolishing roads, embankments, ridges or canals and for altera-tions in irrigation and drainage which would ensure that therewould be larger areas and that the channels and roads would bestraightened and made less numerous and less wasteful of time,labour and land. Up to 1907 Japan had issued permits for thereadjustment of over 240,000 acres, and Fig. 12 is a landscapein one of these readjusted districts. To provide capable expertsfor planning and supervising these changes, the Government in1905 entrusted the training of men to the higher agriculturalschool belonging to the Dai Nippon Agricultural Association, andsince 190G the Agricultural College and the Kogyokusha haveundertaken the same task. Now there are men suffici
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