The Draft of the National Constitution of China (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...to feed the animals and sells the stocks or their products, as milk and wool. In general farming, part of the crop is sold and part of it is kept to feed live stocks. Orcharding, fruit growing, and vegetable gardening, are included in this country under head of horticulture. In adopting a particular system of farming, the farmer, should, of course, choose of his own interest and according to his business ability, the type of the soil, the size of the farm, theamount of available capital, the demand of the community and the facility of transportation. Grain farming requires less capital, less business ability, less knowledge of the LOY CHANG, President M. H. LI, Vice-President S. D. LEE, Secretary CHENG-FU WANG, Treasurer market, and is in many other respects simpler than live stock farming. The grain farmer may not gain as much as the live stock farmer, but he is not liable to as great loss as his neighbor, the live stock farmer; at the same time, he may keep up his soil fertility as well as his neighbor, if he attends to the green crops carefully. 2. Selection of Crops for Rotatlon.--Rotation is the alternative grow-ing of different crops on the same field in different years and in a definite order. The practice is old, and the principles are fundamental: for, if a single crop should continue year after year, one or more of the following results may happen: (1) The excretions of the plant will accumulate and will be detrimental to the plant itself. (2) Insects will find their old haunt; diseases, their old host; and weeds, their old companions. Each of these may become, in time, incontrollable. (3) Certain elements in the soil may be depleted rapidly owing to their being required in a large amount by that crop. This is notably true in...