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For more than 40,000 years, Asian farmers worked the same fields repeatedly without sapping the land's fertility and without applying artificial fertilizer How they accomplished this miraculous feat is described by author Franklin Hiram King, a former official of the U.S. Department... Read Full Overview

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Book Excerpt: on when its efficiency in crop production may behighest. South China has a rainfall of some 80 inches with little ofit during the winter, while in our southern states the rainfall isnearer 60 inches with less than one-half of it between June andSeptember. Along... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Reproduction of the original: Farmers of Forty Centuries by F.H King

""Farmers of Forty Centuries"" is a seminal work by F. H. King that explores the agricultural practices of China, Korea, and Japan. Published in 1911, this book is a comprehensive study of the traditional farming techniques that have sustained these cultures for centuries. King... Read Full Overview

Reproduction of the original: Farmers of Forty Centuries by F.H King

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

A passage from the book... We have not yet gathered up the experience of mankind in the tilling of the earth; yet the tilling of the earth is the bottom condition of civilization. If we are to assemble all the forces and agencies that make for the final conquest of the planet,... Read Full Overview

First published in 1926, this classic survey examines the traditional farming methods of the densely populated lands of China, Korea and Japan and shows how fertility can be maintained over many centuries through conserving and utilising natural resources.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview