Farmers of Forty Centuries : Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan

Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan

By: F. H. KING

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Paperback | 1 March 2004

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For more than 40,000 years, Asian farmers worked the same fields repeatedly without sapping the land's fertility and without applying artificial fertilizer How they accomplished this miraculous feat is described by author Franklin Hiram King, a former official of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. King traveled to Asia in the early 1900s to learn how farmers in China, Korea, and Japan were able to achieve successful harvests century after century without exhausting the soil -- one of their most valuable natural resources. This book is the result of his extraordinary mission.
A fascinating study of waste-free methods of cultivation, this work reveals the secrets of ancient farming methods and, at the same time, chronicles the travels and observations of a remarkable man. A well-trained observer who studied the actual conditions of life among agricultural peoples, King provides intriguing glimpses of Japan, China, Manchuria, and Korea; customs of the common people; the utilization of waste; methods of irrigation, reforestation, and land reclamation; the cultivation of rice, silk, and tea; and related topics.
Enhanced with more than 240 illustrations (most of them photographs), this book represents an invaluable resource for organic gardeners, farmer, and conservationists. It remains "one of the richest sources of information about peasant agriculture and] one of the pioneer books on organic farming." -- The LastWhole Earth Catalog.

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Non-Fiction Engineering & Technology Agriculture & Farming Organic Farming Gardening Specialised Gardening Methods Organic & Sustainable Gardening Nature & The Natural World Sustainable Agriculture

Introduction	p. 1
First Glimpses of Japan	p. 14
Grave Lands of China	p. 48
To Hongkong and Canton	p. 60
Up the Si-kiang, West River	p. 81
Extent of Canalization and Surface Fitting of Fields	p. 97
Some Customs of the Common People	p. 118
The Fuel Problem, Building and Textile Materials	p. 137
Tramps Afield	p. 167
The Utilization of Waste	p. 193
In the Shantung Province	p. 216
Orientals Crowd Both Time and Space	p. 261
Rice Culture in the Orient	p. 271
Silk Culture	p. 311
The Tea Industry	p. 323
About Tientsin	p. 330
Manchuria and Korea	p. 345
Return to Japan	p. 376
Message of China and Japan to the World
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Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan

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