Identifier: farmersoffortyce01king (find matches)
Title: Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram), 1848-1911 Bruce, J. Percy (Joseph Percy), b. 1861, ed
Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture
Publisher: Emmaus, Pa., Organic Gardening Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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20)0 TIICE CULTURE TN THE O lU K N T ciuuiot sjuirc room to <j;r((ii inaiuiro crop, it is gathcndon tlie niountaiii, weed and liill lands, or cut in the ca,naLs. Oil ourboat trip west from Soocliow llic last^ ol May, many boats were))a,sscd carryin.ij; tons ol the loiiif ti;rccii rihhoii-iikc <^rass, cut and•^mIIh red IVoin t he l)()l.tom of tlic canal. To cut this j^rass men wereworl<in<^ to tluir armpits in the water of tlie canal, usin<^ a cres-cent-shaped knife mounted lil\ an aiiclior from the end of a 10-foot l)and»o<) handle. Tliis was sIiov<mI forward alon<z the bottom

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