Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . )ared,fertilized, clean soil of the field they are ready to feed strongly NURSERY RICE BEDS 253. 254 RICE CULTURE IN THE ORIENT under the most favourable conditions. Both time and strength ofplant are thus gained and those ])(M)})1o iire following what wouldappear to be the best possible practices under their condition ofsmall holdings and dense population. With our broad fields, our machinery and few people, theirsystem appears to us crude and impossible, but cut our holdingsto the si/e of theirs and our machine
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . )ared,fertilized, clean soil of the field they are ready to feed strongly NURSERY RICE BEDS 253. 254 RICE CULTURE IN THE ORIENT under the most favourable conditions. Both time and strength ofplant are thus gained and those ])(M)})1o iire following what wouldappear to be the best possible practices under their condition ofsmall holdings and dense population. With our broad fields, our machinery and few people, theirsystem appears to us crude and impossible, but cut our holdingsto the si/e of theirs and our machinery, even our ploughs, wouldbe inij)ossible. So that the more one studies the enviroiuiient of
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