Deseret Evening News | 1906-07-07 | Page 18 | Small Farms in Japan

SMALL FARMS IN JAPAN Japan and not nol France or Belgium would appear to 10 be the tho land of petitt cullum According to a R recent Amerl can nil bulletin ft a 1 couple of or acres Aeres In III rOil cot cd a large largo tract tor for farm arming III pun pui P PIff tep F Most of ot the farms are arc smaller r rand and on a little plot a surprising vane varie variety vanet arleI ty t I of ot crimps 1 I Is cultivated few fel feet f t of ot wheat barley balle maize malio and mil millet millet let k a plot of ot beans perhaps 10 II fret feet fl lt wide by b SO 20 feet long a R similar area ar of ot and peas pan and a patch batch ot of onions omens about as I big as all a 8 grave ben beet b brool beetroot root lettuce turnips turnip sweet potato and other crops occupy the rest of ot tin till area arM The farmer examines his grow growing InK Dig crops every eer morning Just a II as an nn engineer Inspects his hili machinery and It If anything Is wrong he put puts It right If It II a weed appears rs in the bean patch latch h he heI J I It II t up If It a hill hili of or nr else fI e falls tAils It h is at once re rl replanted replanted planted pIa II t When h he cuts down it n 1 tree he plants another As v soon on M rs olio crop li is harvested the th soil noil io i 11 over Oer soil ami forthwith to 10 another crop It Is III that thai tenths of ot the agricultural land of ot Japan I le Ie devoted dotro to 10 rice tun and 1 as this thin Is h A t crop requiring inquiring much water time are IUt tanked banked up int terrace one above the Ih other md and dl off orr into Inlo small 1111 plots JS n feet foet r t square with ridges of ot earth between them to 10 prevent Ih thi tenter from flowing away 1 1 uh when n they 1111 are arp flooded All An land IlIn are 1 hy by a t that ia U it I a R thousand years old Some of ot the Ih ditches lire are walled smiled up with bamboo and some with tiles and ana stone atone