Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . Fuj. ht). In)\ idin^ tor the buildi (I ;niilcl(i\ IT cotiipost sliicli. that we made special effort to follow them through dilTerentphases. In Fig. 86 we saw the preparation being made to buildone of the clover compost stacks saturated with canal mud. Onthe left the thin mud had been dipped from the canal. Wayfarersin the centre were crossing the foot-bridge of the country rose the conical thatch to shelter the water buffalo whenpumping the water for irrigating the rice crop which was to befed with
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . Fuj. ht). In)\ idin^ tor the buildi (I ;niilcl(i\ IT cotiipost sliicli. that we made special effort to follow them through dilTerentphases. In Fig. 86 we saw the preparation being made to buildone of the clover compost stacks saturated with canal mud. Onthe left the thin mud had been dipped from the canal. Wayfarersin the centre were crossing the foot-bridge of the country rose the conical thatch to shelter the water buffalo whenpumping the water for irrigating the rice crop which was to befed with the plant food now in preparation. On the right weretwo large piles of green clover freshly cut. A woman of the familyat one of them was spreading it to receive the mud, while themen-folk were coming from the field with more clover on theircarrying poles. We came upon this scene just before the dinnerhour and, after the workers had left, another photograph was MUD AND CLOVER COMPOST 165. 166 TEAMPS AFIELD taken at closer range from a different side, giving the view seenin Fig. 87. As the mud had been removed some days and becometoo stiff to spread, water was being brought from the canal in thepails at the right for reducing its consistency to that of a thinporridge, permitting it more completely to smear and saturatethe clover. The stack grew, layer by layer, each saturated withthe mud, tramped solid with the bare feet. Provision had beenmade here for building four other along we came upon the scene in Fig. 88, where the
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