TAILIEUCHUNG - TRAMPS AFIELD

On March 31st we took the 8 A. M. train on the Shanghai-Nanking railway for Kunshan, situated thirty-two miles west from Shanghai, to spend the day walking in the fields. The fare, second class, was eighty cents, Mexican. A third class ticket would have been forty cents and a first class, $, practically two cents, one cent and half a cent, our currency, per mile. The second class fare to Nanking, a distance of 193 miles, was $, U. S. currency, or a little less than one cent per mile. While the car seats were not upholstered, the service. | TRAMPS AFIELD On March 31st we took the 8 A. M. train on the Shanghai-Nanking railway for Kunshan situated thirty-two miles west from Shanghai to spend the day walking in the fields. The fare second class was eighty cents Mexican. A third class ticket would have been forty cents and a first class practically two cents one cent and half a cent our currency per mile. The second class fare to Nanking a distance of 193 miles was U. S. currency or a little less than one cent per mile. While the car seats were not upholstered the service was good. Meals were served on the train in either foreign or Chinese style and tea coffee or hot water to drink. Hot wet face cloths were regularly passed and many Chinese daily newspapers were sold on the train a traveler often buying two. In the vicinity of Kunshan a large area of farm land had been acquired by the French catholic mission at a purchase price of 40 Mexican per mow or at the rate of per acre. This they rented to the Chinese. It was here that we first saw at close range the details of using canal mud as a fertilizer so extensively applied in China. Walking through the fields we came upon the scene in the middle section of Fig. 92 where close on the right was such a reservoir as seen in Fig. 58. Men were in it dipping up the mud which had accumulated over its bottom pouring it on the bank in a field of windsor beans and the thin mud was then over two feet deep at that side and flowing into the beans where it had already spread two rods burying the plants as the engraving shows. When sufficiently dry to be readily handled this would be spread among the beans as we found it being done in another field shown in the upper section of the illustration. Here four men were distributing such mud which had dried between the rows not to fertilize the beans but for a succeeding crop of cotton soon to be planted between the rows before they were harvested. The owner of this piece of land with whom we talked and who .

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