The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-10

Law and order are, however, we'll pre-
served. ana L believe that human life and
property are as safe here is they are In
America.
A large part of the farming of this re-
giou is done by irrigation. and the water
rights of the Chinese are as full OF COM
plicatiODs as are those Of Colorado. Still
there are few troubles among the farmers,
and with n o fences 10 mark the lines or
their property they work away In peace
and quiet generation after generation. 1t
is wonderful how well they work and how
much they get off the land. Three crops
year Is by no means uncommon, ana II
any sign Of failure OF crop is seen, the
seed for another cropis stTaightway soWn.
Ii is wonderful how small the farms are.
There are thousands of holdings 10 China
which are less than an acre, and some are
even as small as the tenth of an acre. 1t
is estimated that An acre of land will 10
the better parts of the empire support
family of six, and volume could be writ
ten on Chinese agriculture. The use OF
fertilizers is universal, and, though
there are practically no horses and few
cattle, there is no land which is so
we'll fed. Everything is saved. Thou.
sands of men do nothing else but gather
up bits OF fertllIZing matter and sell them.
The refuse of rich family will bring
more than that OF poor one, and the
Stops OF the foreign part of Shanghai are
farmed out annually for n sum which gives
The city most of its educational fund.
Potato Feelings. the parings of finger-nalls.
the shavings OF the head and ruined houses
form parts OF the fertillZing material, and
this is generally put together in such liquid
form that not bit Of II is wasted. The
manure is kept in great watts and the farm
Watered like a garden. Each plat gets its
daily food ana drink. A dipperful from
the vat is put INTO each bucket Of water
and the mixture Is poured In at the ROOTS
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China such fertilization goes on, and from
| twenty to thirty dollars a year is some
times spent upon an acre OF land.
The tools used are crude in the extreme.
| see men working IN the fields near here
with leng-handIed hoes. These have four
pitchfOrk and each tooth or tine is about
an inch in width. They also use gTubblng
hoes or mRttocks and they have a sort OF
a spade with a cross piece of wood two
| inches above where the iron plate OF the
spade begins.
They push the spade down into the
| ground by pressing the bare foot against
this cross bar instead of on the iron itself
rs we do. Their plows scratch the earth
] and are not much better than those used
| in Egypt. These are pulled by wafer
! buffaloS, the ugliest cattle known to man.
! The buffalos grind the rice. tramp the mud
and straw for making the sun-dTied bricks
of which their houses are made. and do all
| sorts of farm work. When grazing and
when not at work they are minded by the
| little children, who sit upon their backs
/ and who have q wonderful control over
| them. They crawl up on the back Of the
| buffalo, getting first upon the horns Of
! animal. who bends down its head for them.
! As soon as they are astride Of the neck
| the buffalo will gently raise its head
| and the boy will slide down its neck till be
has a firm seat just behind its shoulders.
/ Here be will stay all day, aud | have seen
little fellows of and years sound asleep
| upon the backs Of these animals, who are
| often dangerous and ugly in their actions
toward strangers. A good buffalo is worth
! about $50, and farmers often enter a sort
| of farmers loan assoc alton for the use oil
| common fund Of money from year TO
year by which they stock their farms.
! l have seen some cows, but their mill
is not used as food. The Chinaman does
not think milk fl to drink, and he only
uses it as medicine. When lie does that he
prefers the human variety and gets a wet.
nurse. This is by no means an uncOmm on
thing. and the Empress DOwager when she
was sick not long ago put herself upon q
diet of this kind. l venture the old lady
did the milking herself. The mutton OF
| this part OF China is very fine and It's
flavor is said TO be much improved by feed.
| ing the sheep en- mulberry leaves. The
hogs are of the lubberly black Chinese
variety, the dirtest and filthiest animals
of their kind. They are always minded by
girl or boy when in the fields. aud | saw
to-day a little girl of 10 whose feet were
bandaged so that she seemed to be walk.
ing on red hot irons as she tottered about
whipping the hogs. The pigs often seeI