TAILIEUCHUNG - FIRST GLIMPSES OF JAPAN AGRICULTURE

We left the United States from Seattle for Shanghai, China, sailing by the northern route, at one P. M. February second, reaching Yokohama February 19th and Shanghai, March 1st. It was our aim throughout the journey to keep in close contact with the field and crop problems and to converse personally, through interpreters or otherwise, with the farmers, gardeners and fruit growers themselves; and we have taken pains in many cases to visit the same fields or the same region two, three or more times at different intervals during the season in order to observe different phases of the. | FIRST GLIMPSES OF JAPAN AGRICULTURE We left the United States from Seattle for Shanghai China sailing by the northern route at one P. M. February second reaching Yokohama February 19th and Shanghai March 1st. It was our aim throughout the journey to keep in close contact with the field and crop problems and to converse personally through interpreters or otherwise with the farmers gardeners and fruit growers themselves and we have taken pains in many cases to visit the same fields or the same region two three or more times at different intervals during the season in order to observe different phases of the same cultural or fertilization methods as these changed or varied with the season. Our first near view of Japan came in the early morning of February 19th when passing some three miles off the point where the Pacific passenger steamer Dakota was beached and wrecked in broad daylight without loss of life two years ago. The high rounded hills were clothed neither in the dense dark forest green of Washington and Vancouver left sixteen days before nor yet in the brilliant emerald such as Ireland s hills in June fling in unparalleled greeting to passengers surfeited with the dull grey of the rolling ocean. This lack of strong forest growth and even of shrubs and heavy herbage on hills covered with deep soil neither cultivated nor suffering from serious erosion yet surrounded by favorable climatic conditions was our first great surprise. To the southward around the point after turning northward into the deep bay similar conditions prevailed and at ten o clock we stood off Uraga where Commodore Perry anchored on July 8th 1853 bearing to the Shogun President Fillmore s letter which opened the doors of Japan to the commerce of the world and it is to be hoped brought to her people with their habits of frugality and industry so indelibly fixed by centuries of inheritance better opportunities for development along those higher lines destined to make life still more worth .

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