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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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CEO W DING OF CROPS 45 ten rows of cabbage, two rows of large windsor beans and a rowof garden peas. Thirteen rows of vegetables in 22 feet, all luxuri-ant and strong! Note the judgment shown in placing the tallestplants, needing the most sun, in the centre between the trees. But these old-world people, accustomed to crowding and tobeing crowded, and long ago capable of making four blades ofgrass grow where Nature grew but one, have also learned howto double the acreage where a crop needs more elbow room thanit does standing room, as seen in Fig. 15. This mans garden hadan area of but 63 by 68 feet, and two square rods of this was heldsacred to the family grave mound. Yet his statement of yields,number of crops and prices made his earning $100 a year on lessthan one-tenth of an acre. His crop of cuciunbers on less than -06of an acre would bring him $20. He had already sold $5 worthof greens and a second crop would follow the cucumbers. He hadjust irrigated his garden from an adjoining

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