Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . )ine. isowned by private parties and the growth is cut at intervals often, twentv or twentv-live vears, btMnij; sold on the iiround to. Fiu. uoo (Umg with tlio Japaiioso ciroiiinforoiit ial foot-power water wheel,near Hnshiinoto. those who will come and cut it at a price of 10 sen for a one-horse load, as already describe^l (])age li2). The course from here was up the rather rapidly rising Kiigawavalley where much water was being applied to thfe rice fields byvarious methods of pumping, among them numerous curren
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . )ine. isowned by private parties and the growth is cut at intervals often, twentv or twentv-live vears, btMnij; sold on the iiround to. Fiu. uoo (Umg with tlio Japaiioso ciroiiinforoiit ial foot-power water wheel,near Hnshiinoto. those who will come and cut it at a price of 10 sen for a one-horse load, as already describe^l (])age li2). The course from here was up the rather rapidly rising Kiigawavalley where much water was being applied to thfe rice fields byvarious methods of pumping, among them numerous currentwheels; an occasional power-pumj) driven by cattle; .and verycommonly the foot-power wheel where the man walks on thecircumference, steadying himself with a long pole, as seen in thefield. Fig. 200. It was here that a considerable section of the hillslope had been very recently cut over, the area showing light in WILD BEAUTY 347 the engraving. It was in tlie vieinity of IlaKhirnoto on this route,too, that the two beautiful views reproduced in Figs. 134 and 155were taken. At the experiment station it was learned that within the pre-fecture of Nara, having a jiopulation of 558,314, two-thirdsof the 107,574 acre
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