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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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l corm or fleshy bulb having theshape and size of a small onion. Boys pare them and sell a dozenspitted together on slender sticks the length of a knitting-needle.Then there are the water caltropes, grown in the canals, producinga fruit resembling a horny nut having a shape which suggests forthem the name buftalo-horn. Still another plant, known as water-grass (Hydropyrmn latifolium), is grown in Kiangsu province,where the land is too wet for rice. The plant has a tender succu-lent crown of leaves and the peeling of the outer coarser ones awaysuggests the husking of an ear of green corn. The portion eaten isthe central tender new growth, and when cooked forms a deli-cate savoury dish. The farmers selling price is 3 to 4 dollars,Mexican, per 100 catty, or $-97 to $1*29 per hundredweight, andthe return per acre is from $13 to $20. 120 SOME CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE The small number of animal products which are included in themarket list given should not be taken as indicating the proportion
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Fig. 56. - Boone Road vegetable market, April 6th, Shanghai, China. The largevegetables in the lower section are lotus roots. of animal to vegetable foods in the dietaries of these people. It isnevertheless true that they are vegetarians to a far higher degree ECONOMY OF VEGETABLE DIET 121 than are most Western nations, and the high maintenance effi-ciency of the agriculture of China, Korea and Japan is in greatmeasure rendered possible by the adoption of a diet so largelyvegetarian. Hopkins, in his Soil Fertility and Permanent Agricul-ture, page 234, makes this pointed statement of fact: 1,000 bushelsof grain has at least five times as much food value and will supportfive times as many people as will the meat or milk that can bemade from it. He also calls attention to the results of many

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