HAZARDOUS FARMING
Among Hie Japanese there are sea-i farmers, men whose strange occupation : it is to cultivate the bottom of the sea < in order to obtain a harvest of sargasso Ji a sea-weed which is found at great h depths and is used in pharmacy and < also in bacteriology for lhe preparation • of cultures. . It requires all the patience and j tenacity of a. Japanese Io underlake ( this kind of Farming. A submarine field needs four or five years of preparation ” in order to get rid of the stones, weeds ]
-and parasites which encumber it befo lit can be sown. All the work has, course, to be done by divens. Consider!' the difficulties of such an enterprii and the dangers to which the “far; ers” are continually exposed fre attacks by sharks, octopi, montara and devil-fish, it is not surprising th the price of sargasso is very high ai that a good sea farmer can make fre £2O to £7O a day gathering the precio plant.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 245, 17 October 1939, Page 12
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166HAZARDOUS FARMING Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 245, 17 October 1939, Page 12
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