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

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

F. H. King

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Chinese, Korean, and Japanese farmers kept the same fields fertile for four thousand years without exhausting them. Franklin King traveled the Far East to learn how, recording the composting, water management, and intensive methods behind permanent agriculture. A landmark study that shaped the whole organic movement. Discover how the East farmed the same soil for forty centuries.

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20 chapters

  1. 1OR
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3CONTENTS PREFACE
  4. 4INTRODUCTION
  5. 5I
  6. 6II
  7. 7III
  8. 8IV
  9. 9V
  10. 10VI
  11. 11VII
  12. 12VIII
  13. 13IX
  14. 14X
  15. 15XI
  16. 16XII
  17. 17XIII
  18. 18XIV

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