ODD LITTLE FARMS IN JAPAN

Evening Star, Issue 14186, 11 October 1909, Page 6

ODD LITTLE FARMS IN JAPAN

Land is so scarce in Japan, and the poopfe are eo numerous, that a farm rarely consists of metre than an acre or two. '.l.'hese little farms are divided up into tiny fields. During the season of tihe year in which we made our journey one of "hese fields is filled with sprouting barlev light green m color; another field—perhaps t.hs i>ext—with, vetch, a lavendercolored, clover-like fodder; a neighboring field with, a dark-green grass, from the seed of which a lamp oil is manufactured; another with the pale yellow flowers of the mustard; ano scattered here and there fields filled with what looked like a variety of lily—some white, some red, some vel low, but all equally brilliant. Then, to get the complete picture, you must imagine patches of flowering azaleas dotting the roadside; towering, roundtopped camellia trees breaking the sky-line with frequent splashes of bright green; usually in the shade of these trees houses with white plastered walls and red-tiled roofs; about the more pretentious of these houses white-plastered walls, above which appeared a profnejcm of palms, roses, no ft strange native flowers; and in the doorways of ihe garden walk kimono-dad Japanese girls—the kimonos as many and as gaily colored as the garden that framed them.—‘ Outing.’