Farmers of Forty Centuries, Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan |
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Common terms and phrases
acre agricultural amount annually Antung applied ashes bamboo barley basket beds bundles bushels per acre canal mud Canton carrying catty cent chain pump Chekiang Chihli China Chinese compost cotton covered cultivated fields donkeys earth eggs eight extensively farm farmers feeding feet fertilizer flooded four fuel furrows garden grain grave green manure grown growth harvested hill lands hundred Hwang ho inches irrigation Japan Japanese kaoliang Kiangsu labor Manchuria matting rush millet million mulberry narrow nearly nitrogen organic matter paddy passed permitted phosphorus piles pits plain plant food plowed pounds of phosphorus practice produced pump rainfall rice fields rice straw river roots rows season seed seen in Fig Shanghai Shantung soil soy beans square miles stacks steamer stems street surface Tientsin tion tons transplanting trees Tsingtao twenty vegetables village waste water buffalo wheat yield
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Page 198 - A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal: "Water, water, we die of thirst." The answer from the friendly vessel at once came back, "Cast down your bucket where you are.
Page 194 - Hall, the people of the United States and of Europe are pouring into the sea, lakes or rivers, and into the underground waters, from 5,794,300 to 12,000,000 pounds of nitrogen, 1,881,900 to 4,151,000 pounds of potassium, and 777,200 to 3,057,600 pounds of phosphorus per million of adult population annually, and this •waste we esteem one of the great achievements of our civilization.
Page 6 - Irish potatoes at the earliest opportunity in the spring, marketing them when small, and following these with radishes, the radishes with cabbage, realizing from the three crops at the rate of $203 per acre. Nearly 500,000,000 people are being maintained, chiefly upon the products of an area smaller than the improved farm lands of the United States.
Page 209 - Thus, foot following foot, one bare length ahead, the succeeding bunches of herbage were submerged until the last had been reached, following between alternate rows only a foot apart, there being a hill every nine to ten inches in the row and the hands grasping and being drawn over every one in the paddy. He was renting the land, paying therefor forty kan of rice per tan, and his usual yield was eighty kan. This is forty-four bushels of sixty pounds per acre. In unfavorable seasons his yield might...
Page 198 - ... and a native mother,) and 19,804 of low castes. For the preservation of personal security, there is a police, with a magistrate at its head, and to which 8147 Thannadars, Naibs, Chokidars, Jemadars, and Burkandazes belong. The climate of Calcutta may be inferred from its situation in a damp hollow, on the banks of one of the largest rivers in the world. Each season has its peculiar dangers ; in the hot months, fevers and cholera prevail, and when the rainy season beVOL.
Page 198 - Cast down your bucket where you are." And a third and fourth signal for water was answered "Cast down your bucket where you are." The captain of the distressed vessel, at last heeding the injunction, cast down his bucket and it came up full of fresh, sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon River.
Page 13 - ... they are housed against waste from weather, compounded with intelligence and forethought and patiently labored with through one, three, or even six months, to bring them into the most efficient form to serve as manure for the soil or as feed for the crop.
Page 4 - The average of seven Chinese holdings which we visited and where we obtained similar data indicates a maintenance capacity for those lands of 1,783 people, 212 cattle or donkeys and 399 swine, — 1,995 consumers and 399 rough food transformers per square mile of farm land.
Page 135 - ... middleman as transformers of coarse substances into human food. It is clear that in the adoption of the succulent forms of vegetables as human food important advantages are gained. At this stage of maturity they have a higher digestibility, thus making the elimination of the animal less difficult. Their nitrogen content is relatively higher and this in a measure compensates for loss of meat. By devoting the soil to growing vegetation which man can directly digest they have saved 60 pounds per...