CHINESE FARMING.
A Chinos farmer is about as unlike his compeer anywhere else as can bo imagined. He does not live, as they do, in-com-paratively isolated districts, but in villages walled round and very densely peopled. In China 200 acres of laud is a huge farm. Tho man who owns ten i.s considered wealthy, while a single acre will yield its owner a. decided competence. Ilicc, sugar mine, potatoes, indigo, ginger, tobacco and wheat—these are the things the Chinese farmer grows, says a New York paper. Pico, A course, is the Chinese staff of life. As the Chinese farmer uses no milk, butter, or choosey the, only four-leagc.i beast on a Chinese farm is the zebu, a species of ox, -that ia used for drawing the plough. Perhaps the most curious phase of Chinese farming is the fact of the Chinese farmer training his hens to follow the harvesters t.o pick up the last grains left among tho stubble, and also the noxious insects that abound there. -—“Morning Leader.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4319, 30 March 1901, Page 8 (Supplement)
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