The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-12

Truckers and gardeners raise three crops a wear
Rice, as rule, is not sown as with u.s. but the
plants are transplanted we transplant cabbage
or sweet potato plants (but so close together, of
course, that the ripening fields look as If they had
been sown) In order that the farmer may save the
time the rice plants getting to the transplant
ing stage: that is to say, some other crop is ma
turing on the land while the rice plants are get
ting large enough to transplant Riding through
the country almost anywhere you will notice the
tender young plants Of some new crop showing
between the rows of the crop that is just being
taken of.
The crops In Japan are not very varied One
dollar out OF every two the farmer produces from
all sources comes from rice. Next to rice is the
silk-worm industry, and then barley wheat, vege-
tables. soy beans, sweet potatoes, and fruits
there is especial interest in fruit growing just
Sweet potatoes grow more luxuriantly than in any
other country have ever seen, and are much used
as food. have seen one or two little patches of
cotton, but evidently only for home spinning al
though in Korea. which has just been formally
annexed as Japanese territory. hear it said that
cotton can be probably grown. The CROP with
leaves like lotus or immense water-lilies often
seen here Is the taro, which also growing
In Hawaii; its roots used for food like the potato.
Every particle OF fertility Of every kind, as
have said is religiously saved and in recent
a considerable demand for commercial fertilizers
has sprung up. IS to $40 worth per being
used.'
New Line of Cooperation In Prospect.
The obvious truth is that the agricultural pop
ulation OF Japan is too congested 1t is ply
steal impossbilty for people to live In genuine
comfort-even though their standards do not call
for shoes or tables. beds chairs, Western
houses Western clothing-on such small
pocket-handkerchief pieces OF land. The almost
exclusive use of hand labor. too. is uneconomc.
seen from large standpoint and 1t would seem
that In future farmers must combine, as they are
already beginning to do. and purchase horses aud
and horse power tools to be used In common by
a number OF farmers. In the Tokyo Seed. Plant
and Implement Company store the other day
saw number OF widely advertised American
tools. and the manager told me the demand for
them Is increasing Thus with smaller number
OF men required to produce the nations food
larger number may engage In manufacturing, and
gradually the same principle OF division of labor
which has brought Western peoples to high stand
ards OF living. comfort, and earning power will
produce much the same result In Japan Already
wages, astonishingly low, have increased 40 per
cent In the last eight ten years, this increase
being partly due to the general cheapening OF
money the world over. and partly also to In
creased efficiency OF the average laborer here
Legislation Unfair to Agriculture.
Unfortunately. however. Japan is not content
to rely upon natural law for the development
of manufactures. Adam Smith said In his
Wealth of Nations" published the year of our
Declaration of Independence, l believe,) that the
policy OF all European nations since the down.
fall OF the Roman Empire had been to help manu-
featuring, the industry OF the towns, rather than
agriculture, the industry OF the country policy
In which America later initiated Europe, and
Japan now initiates both. For long time the
Government has paid enormous subsidies to ship
upon following PARAGRAPH appears In the Japan
Night constitutes BY far the most por an itt
manure and district al
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