The Ottawa free trader., 1876-07-01

pie ls estimated at two Teu per day, whicl
makes 1000 Cash* per annum or about q
hectoli'res GAO gals, at price Of sever
ilOrins.
In the vicinity Of large towns these excre
mCnts are converted into poudrplir winch !,
then sent to the most distant places in In,
shape OF square cakes Ike bricks. For use
these cakes are soaked in water, and appliec
in the fluid form. With the exception of IN.
rice fields the Chlncsc does not manure IN,
field, but the plant.
Every substance derived from plants AN,
animals is carefully collected by the Chimes,
and converted into manure OIL cakes, horr
and bones, are highly valued, and SO is SCOT
and more especially ash To give some no
tion of the value set by them upon ANNA
oiial, it will be sufficient to mention that tn,
BARRIERS most carefully collect, and sell as al
article OF trade, the somewhat considerable,
amount of hair OF the bsards and heads of thu
hundreds of millions of customers whom they
daily shave. The Chinese know the actor
OF gypsum and lime; and it often happen.
that they renew the plas,ering of the kitch
ems, for the purpose of making use of the ole
matter Tor manure-(Davis)
NO Chinese farmer ever sows il seed o
corn before 1t has been soaked in liquid man
ure diluted in water, and has begun to germi
nate; and experience has taught him $50 he
asserts), that this operation not only tends tC
promote the growth and development of the
plant, but also to protect the seed from the
insect hidden in the ground.-(Davis.)
During the summer months all kinds oi
vegetable refuse are mixed with turf, straw
grass, peat, weeds, and earth, collected into
heaps, and when quite dry, set on fire; after
several days of slow combustion the entire
mass Is converted into kind of black earth
| This compost is only employed for the man.
uring OF seeds. When seed.time arrives, one
man makes holes in the ground another fol
lows with the seed, which he places in the
holes; and third adds this black earth The
young seed planted In this manner grows
with such extraordinary vigor that it is there.
by enabled to push its rootlets through the
hard solid soil, and to collect its mineral
const.tuents.-( Fortune)
THE Chinese farmer sOws his wheat, after
the grains have been soaked in liquid man.
ure, quite close in sced-beds, and afterwards
transplants 1T. Occasionally, also, The soaked
grains are Immediately sown IN the field
properly prepared for their reception at an
interval OF four inches from each other. The
time Of transplanting is towards the month
of December In March the seed sends up
seven to nine stalks with ears, but the straw
is shorter than with US. | have been told
that wheat yields 12O fold and more, which
amply repays the care and labor bestowed
upon it Eckeberg, Report TO the Academy
OF Sciences at Stockholm, 1863.
In Cnusan, and the entire rice districts of
Cheklang and Keangsoo, two plants are ex-
clusively cultivated for the purpose of serv-
ing as green manure for the rice fields; the
one is species of CorOnilla, clover is the
other Broad fUrrows, similar to those in
lad anln do, Il H.. l..
planted on the ridges in patches, at a dis
tance of 6 inches from each other. In the
course of a few days termination begins, and
long before the winter is gone, the entire
field is covered with luxuriant vegetation.
In April the plants are plowed in and de-
composition soon begins, attended with a.
udor. This method is adopted
in all places where rice Is grown Fortune,
vol. i. p. 23S)
These extracts, which, from want Of space,
cannot be further extended, Will probably
suffice 10 convince the German agrculturst
that his practice. when compared with that
Of the Oldest agricultural nation in the world
stands somewhat IN the position of the acts
of child to those of fullgrown and expert.
enced man. The Chinese system of husban-
dry Is the more remarkable, if we take into
account what they have achieved in other
as they owe everything to
he purest empiriclsm. For the Chinese sys-
em OF instruction has, for thousands of years,
so thoroughly excluded every inquiry after
IN ultimate cause OF things, which might |
possibly have led to the discovery of scientific |
principles, or to the establishment of a |
science, that the capabillty Of making further |
progress, except by imitation, would seem to
&c destroyed to the very root by that people.
The study of the physical laws, which has led
European nations to the invention of the
team engine. and of the electric telegraph,
md has enabled man TO control and tdrn to
lis account the forces of nature In number
eSS other instances, IS matter of absolute
to the Chinese scholar. 1t is
he express command of the first and most
ncient teacher of religion, Confucus, that
he student shall never allow any thought to
ise in his mind but such as he finds written
n his books.
1t is quite true that what suits one people
nay not on that account suit all countries
nd all nations; but one great AMI incontro.
ertible truth may, at all events, u" learned
rom Chinese agriculture, viz: that lh" fields
f the Chinese Cultivator have preserved their
ertillty unimpaired, and in continued vigor
yer since the days of Abraham, and of the
uIlding of the first Pyramid of Egypt This
esult we also learn has been attained solely
nd simply by the restitution to the soil of
le mineral constituents removed in the pro-
ucc; or, what amounts to the same thirg, 4.
lat this has been effected by the aid Of a
lanurc, of which the greater portion is lost
, the land in the European system Of civili-
alton.
100 Cash are equal to about i)1d.