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Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . CONSERVING WATER AND FERTILITY 107. Fiu. 49. - Two compost pits filled with roughage and mud from the canal, inpreparation of compost for the fields. The narrow path along the canal isone of the common thoroughfares in Kiangsu province, the surface of the field may be thrown into broad levelledlands separated and bounded by deep and wide trenches intowhich the excess water of very heavy rains may collect. As we
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