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

* Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan Excellent copy gift-able unused clean- pages are white bad cell pic- --Farmers of Forty Centuries describes the voyage agronomist and former US Department of Agriculture official Franklin Hiram King made to to China, Korea and Japan in the early 1900s. The purpose of his trip was to study how the extremely dense populations of the Far East could produce massive amounts of food century after century without depleting their soils. What he discovered was a highly sophisticated system of water management, crop rotation, inter-planting and rational utilization of ecological relationships among farm plants, animals and people.chapter page Introduction First Glimpses of Japan - 18 - Grave Lands of China 48 - To Hong Kong and Canton 60 - Up the Sinkiang West River 81 - Extent of Canalization and Surface Fitting of Fields 97 - Some Customs of the Common People 118 - The Fuel Problem Building and Textile Mate rials 137 - In the Shantung Province 216 - Orientals Crowd Both Time and Space 261 - Rice Culture in the Orient 271 - Silk Culture 311 - The Tea Industry 323 - About Tientsin 330 - Manchuria and Korea 345 - Return to Japan 376- Tramps Afield- 167- The Utilization of Waste- Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan Paperback – March 19, 2004-republication of copy released By Mrs. F.H. King- ISBN- 0486436098, 9780486436098, Index rear- (1911, reprinted in 2004 by Dover Publications) 441 pages , about 5.2 x 1 x 8.2 inches - cover design Jeff A. Menges - Sustainable Living -Agricultural Sciences-Garden -- - Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa,Los Angeles Culver City- see pictures maybe this will do it! -At least you know what you're getting into- City- Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it in -..... sent media mail - 7 days usually coast to coast, less if closer.. - Farmers of Forty Cent4315 Garden 2