Farmers of Forty Centuries 



A History of the Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan 



By F. H. KING, D.Sc. 



Late Professor of Agricultural Physics, University of Wisconsin 



Written by one of America's foremost Agriculturists, who made a close 

 study of the methods by which the Chinese have supported 500,000,000 

 people for four thousand years on an area smaller than the improved farm 

 land of the United States. 



"No more important practical contribution to geographic knowledge has 

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A book of strong interest for the botanist and agriculturist, as well as for 

 the practical man and the student, containing 450 pages and 248 illustrations. 



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