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5350	King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)	Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan			.txt	text/plain	93824	3720	70	Japan 56 per cent of the cultivated fields, 11,000 square miles, is The average area of the rice field in Japan is less than five square grave lands had become nearly naked soil, as seen in Fig. 27 where a Fields which had matured two crops of rice during the long summer, applied to rice, Fig. 45 showing a field as seen in Japan. lands is largely used upon the rice fields, more than sixteen inches inches of water applied to the rice fields of the three main islands a closer view than Fig. 27 of the farmer watering his little field The basal food crop of the people of China, Korea and Japan is rice, of water rice on the plains land at 44 bushels per acre, and that of cultivated land produces a crop of water rice each year and 7.96 per	./cache/5350.txt	./txt/5350.txt