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 of Agriculture. King traveled to Asia in the early 1900s to learn how farmers in China, Korea, and Japan were able to achieve successful harvests century after century without exhausting the soil — one of their most valuable natural resources. This book is the result of his extraordinary mission. A fascinating study of waste-free methods of cultivation, this work reveals the secrets of ancient farming methods and, at the same time, chronicles the travels and observations of a remarkable man. A well-trained observer who studied the actual conditions of life among agricultural peoples, King provides intriguing glimpses of Japan, China, Manchuria, and Korea; customs of the common people; the utilization of waste; methods of irrigation, reforestation, and land reclamation; the cultivation of rice, silk, and tea; and related topics. Enhanced with more than 240 illustrations (most of them photographs), this book represents an invaluable resource for organic gardeners, farmer, and conservationists. It remains "one of the richest sources of information about peasant agriculture [and] one of the pioneer books on organic farming." — The LastWhole Earth Catalog.

Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

King, F. H.

Gardening & Landscape Design

Dover Publications

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Farmers of forty centuries;: Or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan

Business & Money

Industries

Rodale Press

Examines Asian agricultural traditions which have allowed the same fields to be cultivated for centuries without destroying the land's fertility

Farmers of Forty Centuries: Or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan

Rodale Pr

Farmers Of Forty Centuries Or Permanent Agriculture In China, Korea And Japan

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

We in North America are wont to think that we may instruct all the world in agriculture, because our agricultural wealth is great and our exports to less favored peoples have been heavy; but this wealth is great because our soil is fertile and new, and in large acreage for every person. We have really only begun to farm well. The first condition of farming is to maintain fertility. This condition the oriental peoples have met, and they have solved it in their way. We may never adopt particular methods, but we can profit vastly by their experience. With the increase of personal wants in recent time, the newer countries may never reach such density of population as have Japan and China; but we must nevertheless learn the first lesson in the conservation of natural resources, which are the resources of the land. [From the Forward] Get Your Copy Today!

Farmers of Forty Centuries - Permanent Farming In China, Korea, and Japan

History

Asia

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Farmers of Forty Centuries, or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan (Classic Reprint)

Forgotten Books

Originally published in 1911, this early works is a detailed examination of the practical aspects of agriculture with much of the information still useful and practical today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Soil - Its Nature, Relations And Fundamental Principles Of Management

Science & Math

Jennings Press

In 1909, American agronomist F.H. King toured China, Korea and Japan, studying traditional fertilization, tillage and general farming practices. He wrote his observations and findings in Farmers of Forty Centuries, Or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan (1911, published shortly after his death by his wife, Carrie Baker King). King lived in an era preceding synthetic nitrogen fertilizer production and before the use of the internal combustion engine for farm machinery, yet he was profoundly interested in the challenge of farming the same soils in a 'permanent' manner, hence his interest in the agricultural practices of ancient cultures.

Farmers of Forty Centuries

Earth Sciences

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Farmers of Forty Centuries or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan

Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan is a book of Asian farming. 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, we must assuredly know how it is that all the peoples in all the places have met the problem of producing their sustenance out of the soil.

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Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan

Farmers of forty centuries;: Or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan

Farmers of Forty Centuries: Or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan

Farmers Of Forty Centuries Or Permanent Agriculture In China, Korea And Japan

Farmers of Forty Centuries - Permanent Farming In China, Korea, and Japan

Farmers of Forty Centuries, or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan (Classic Reprint)

The Soil - Its Nature, Relations And Fundamental Principles Of Management

Farmers of Forty Centuries

Farmers of Forty Centuries or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan

Farmers of Forty Centuries