INTENSE CULTURE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 95, 12 June 1911, Page 8

INTENSE CULTURE.

A 1 .ruble-ndinietl pilgrimage ity an i was seen in Ihe visit of K. i. i.: r >j;, cl Ilia Wisconsin Agricnl,a. I w..uege, to China and Japan lo lidy wn\ Heir ;..ils could support .:ru> t-wons to the am e. W estern :g. huitui ists have mncli to learn , roin I hose Taimei s who have made He roil respond lor twenty, and per- . ;p-;, even forty centuries of service (says “Collier’s W eekly”). The avea,"e tar.a is supporting three per,y to the acre, and in nearly all oii.s of the densely-populated sections two, three, and .sometimes even on (.ops are taken from the same '! i each year. Hut this is not the oafv cause of theii longer growing ■.eiison. The almost universal practice of planting nearly all crops in rows and in Nils in the row permit me crop to ho planted, germinated am! often hood oeloro another crop oas heen removed from the held, Uma utilising for growth all of the .imo wo consume in removing tlie : cost and fitting the ground for mi neat crop. Then there is au)ti;e; very extensive practice of starting crons in nurseries under conditions or intensive fertilisation, seining on a much smaller area rapid !:)wui and stronger plants, winCii n o then transfei ied to tlie Jields. ; a this manner even the vast areas covered hy the stanlo I'icc crap arc aandled, ' the plants being grown Hilly or more days in small lieds, f.iiiiing thereby thirty to fifty days, daring which another crop on the . imu "mkl is matured, harvested, and die ground fitted for the one to iollow. Human labour is the one asset ol \ri n tney have an excess, and it is freely used in securing the effect of Jorgi r seasons, which, because of then* geographical position, exceed ours. In Southern China two crops of rice are regularly taken, and this is true even in parts of Japan. In the Chekiang province a crop ol rope, of wheat, or beans, dr of green middling, precedes the summer ei op of rico or of cotton. in the Shanl UI o- province ;i crop ol winter wheat or of bar Ivy is followed in the summer with a crop of millet and soy beans, of sweet 'potatoes, or peanuts. As far north as Tientsin and Pekin, ithe latitude of Columbus, 0., !n----t'ianopolis, and Springlield, 111., Mr ] v in<r talked with a farnior who ioN 'owed his cron of wheat with one of onions, and thoso with cabbage the same year, realising a gross coining ijf IGtidol. gold per aero. Another firmer plained a crop of white potatoes at the earliest opportunity in the soring, marketed them moving, and followed with onions and then with cabbage, realising 2t)3d01. per aero for three crops.