| Show FARMING IN JAPAN what Chi cagos ill ex mayor una nir almond 1 lyeal people carter harrlson lson tha thc distinguished ex mayor of chicago Is traveling iti fit the cast cant and writing letters to one of 0 liis ills horne home papers TIC nc has been studying japan japanese F e farming I 1 and tells what lie ho knows about it lie ile says everything there is carrl carried cl on on a very small scale and with cucil sucil suc i wonderful wonderful niceness hicen that it is difficult to i realize that farming is tle the business of 1 I 1 i life and d a very earnest and hard bard oil ono a at t that there are no barns or outhouses out houses in which to store crops there are no flinn houses the people live fr in villages or in towns some of the farms are not even one acre acre in III size and very tow few contain more than ten acres the notable feature of these japanese farms is the irrigating ditch A farm 0 of I 1 two or three acres usually has halt half a I 1 i dozen levels and the water that irrigates irrigate one field runs down clown to irrigate another the farms have the appearance of american market gardens the soil is dry ani and thoroughly prepared the plow Is used I 1 only for throwing up the beds anti and all the clig digging ging is done with hoes and forks no weeds whatever ire are allowed to grow in III tile the little fields and every toot foot of ground Is utilized the JaiRT japanese IPSO farmer takes every advantage ot of the season and practices cs true economy V one crop succeeds another with unvarying regularity and the benefits of rotation are thoroughly understood and realized while one crop is ripening another one Is planted between the rows row s and this practice is carried on even in th the ten tea plantations when the ten tea plants are small turnips and other crops arc planted beix between con the tha rows as soon as the july plucking is completed the management of the jap se farmers is so thoroughly scientific i at laudi lands which havo been in cultivation for centuries continue conten c to produce marvelously large crops it is said mid that buddhism lias has discouraged coil cou ra raged 9 ce the crowth of animals within the limits of the empire and as a result there are not of horned cattle in the country though the grasses on the hills would feed millions the acorns and nuts in the forests would feed millions of hogs I 1 i but there are arc no hogs in japan there are no starvelings starve starr lings elings in japan mr fr harri son soil declares tho the children are arc as tat fat I 1 and jolly as little curly tailed pigs the young lads anti and girls give no evidence of not having enough to cat they are all rounded 11 in biform form and lithe in action anti and the men and boys are capable of enc endur luring irs active labor and fatigue as few others can do they are possibly no not as muscular as our meat eating men but not a day passes that I 1 do not see some man whose muscular development is a source of admiration mi ration and others whose powers of en durance are simply marvelous I 1 atlanta constitution |
