CONTEXTS. 



Page. 

 9 

 Introduction 



Japan _^ 



Agricultural situation " 



Acreage and yield of food crops 



Methods of rice culture 



Field work 



Cutting rice 



Manure 



Farm wages 



Cost of raising rice 



19 

 Farm life 



General remarks 



Ceylon „ 



Agriculture 22 



Imports 22 



Farmhouses 



India 22 



Timber " 



Extent of arable land 



Fertility of the soil 



Green manures 



Commercial fertilizers 



Crop rotation - 



Public roads _,, 



24 

 Conveyances 



Dress 24 



Country houses 



Villages 25 



Plows and scrapers ' 



Seeding and harvesting 



Rice farming 



Treatment of the seed bed and manurmg ^o 



Plowing and fertilizing 



Methods of cultivation . 



Product per acre 



Harvesting 



Thrashing 29 



Wages 29 



Cost of cultivation 



Northern limit of culture - 



Consumption of rice as food 



Acreage under cultivation 



Acreage under irrigation 



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