The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 12, 1895, Page 2

Se FARMING IN JAPAN. and Women are Engaged. From the Chicago Record. There can be no market for Amer- ican agricultural implements and machinery in Japan for two very | simple reasons. First, the farms are not big enough, and, second, labor is too plenty. Ifa Japanese farm- er should introduce a modern reap- er and self-binder upon his farm he would cut down everything in the way of crops while he was turning it around, and there wouldn’t be anything left for him and his family to do all the rest of the season. Most of the farming implements are of a primitive character and many are home-made. Just as the New England farmer used to whittle his ax helves before the big log fire in the winter, so the Japanese farm. er makes his own flails and rakes of bamboo and the handles for his hoes, spades and sickles in cold stormy weather. The iron portion is fashioned at the nearest black- smith shop. These tools last for a lifetime, as they are kept with great care, and are often passed down from generation to generation. Everything is done by hand. You can travel all day in some of the farming counties without seeing a horse ora mule or any other kind of a beast of burden, and goats and sheep, cows and swine are equally scarce. Japan is one vast garden, and as you look over the fields you can im- agine that they are covered with toy farms where children are play- ing with the laws of nature and rais ing samples of different kinds of vegetables and grain. Everything is on a diminutiye scale,and the work is as fine and accurate as that applied to a cloisenne vase. What would an Illinois or an Iowa farmer think of planting his corn, wheat, oats and barley in bunches, and then when it is 3 or 4 inches high, transplanting every spear of it in rows about as far apart as you can stretch your fingers. A Japanese farmer weeds his wheat fields just as a Connecti- cut farmer weeds his onion bed, and cultivates his potatoes and barley with as much care as a Long Island farmer upon his asparagus or his flowers. When grain is ripe it is cut with a sickle clese to the ground. The bot- tom ends are carefully tied together with a whisp or a straw; the bunch is then tdivided and hung over a bamboo pole or rope, like Monday’s washing, to dry; sometimes in the field and sometimes in the back yard and even in the street in front of the house. When it is thorougly cured the heads of grain Fare cut off with a knife, and the straws are carefully bound up and laid away in bundles. The hoads are then spread out upon a piece of straw matting and beaten with a flail. Another method of thrashing is to take handfuls of straw and pull them them through a mesh of iron needles. After the thrashing is done the grain is taken up in a sort of scoop basket made of bamboo and shaken by one woman who holds it as high as her head, while another woman stands with a large fan which she waves rapidly through the air and blows the lighter chaff away from the heavier grain as they are falling. The richer farmers have separators built upon a primitive plan and turned with acrank. People often winnow grain by pouring it from a scoop upon a fan 3 or 4 feet wide, upon which itis tossed gently so as to leave the chaff in the air when it falls. Another method of thrash- ing is to beat the heads of grain up- ona row of bamboo poles. Sone- times you see a whole family at it Every variety of agriculture is carried on in a manner similar to that I described and the soil is in constant use. A couple of acres are considered a large tract of land for farming purposes. Most of the farms are of smaller area, and the! crops are greatly diversified. Upon such a little spot of land will be grown almost everything known to feet of wheat, barley, corn and mil- let, a plat of beans perhaps 10 feet wide by 20 feet long, an equal amount of potatoes and peas, & patch of onions about as big as a grave, beets, lettuce, salsify, turnips, jand other varieties A Business in Which 22,000,000 Men | | the vegetable kingdom; a few square | - then | | sweet potatoes, agehciie. oysters | of cereals and) roots occupy the rest of the area. The farmer looks upon his ing crop every morning, just as the engineer will inspect the movements of his machinery, and if anything is wrong repairs it. Ifa weed appears in the bean patch he pulls it up; if a |hill of potatoes or anything else fails, it is immediately | And when he cuts down a tree he always plants another to take its place. The artificial forest of Japan cover many hundreds of square and care the prosperity of the coun- try is permanently assured. crop is harvested the soil is worked over, fertilized and replanted with something else. The largest area of agricultural lands in Japan is devoted to raising rice, perhaps as much as nine-tenths of the whole, and, as that crop re- As one dies are banked up into terraces,one little plats 25 or 30 feet square, with ridges of earth between them to keep the water from flowing away when they are flooded. All farming land is irrigated by a system that is a thousand years old, and some of the ditches are walled up with bam- boo wicker work. The farmers live in villages and their farms are detached, sometimes a mile or two and three miles away from their homes. There are no fences or other visible signs of divi- siov, but every man knows his own land, for it has been in his family for generations. Irrigating ditches and little paths usually boundary lines. Theoretically all the land belongs to the Emperor, but the greater part of that under cultivation has been held by the same families for gener- ations, and has always descended from the father to the oldest son. The official statistics of Japan show that there 11,400,008 men and 10,948,053 women engaged in agri- culture, which is more than half the total population. are A book on kidnay trouble and its treatment will be mailed free to anyone who will write for it, addressing the Buker PillCo., Bangor Maine; or the patient may enclose 56 cents in Postal Note, or cash ina registered letter; and one box of Buker’s Pills will be mailed togeth er withthe book, post paid to the same ad- dress. Buker’s Kidney Pills is a new and marvell- ous remedy assisting nature to relieve clogged and diseased kidnpys; will also relieve bladder diseases, urinary troubles, backache and Uttle aches and pains throughout the body. Back- id kidney-ache are very often the same se pills will remove the kidney trouble cure the aching back, and purity the blood. Being a new discovery, Buker’s Kidne pills are not yet on sale at all “drug etores. In en- quiring, be sure you get Buker’s, (price 50cts) or address Buker Pill Co., as abeve, and men- tion this paper. oason trade supplied by ae Drug Co., St. 1 Lonis Mo Convention in the Woods. Creston, Ia., Aug. 31.—The Re- publican Senatorial Convention of Adair and Madison Counties has de- veloped remarkable and peculiar aspects. When the time came for selecting the place for holding the convention both counties wanted it. As veither would waive its claim, a compromise was effected, and the conventioa is being held in a dense forest between the two counties. The Chairman sits on the dividing line with one foot in Adair and one foot in Madison. Each county is entitled to twelye delegates, and they sit in their respective counties on either side of the dividing line and in this position the convention has been deliberating for five days. Each county has a candidate. Adair delegates cast their twelve votes for Senator Kilburn, of Fon- tanelle, who is seeking renomination, and the Madison delegates support Richard Price, of Winterset. The delegates were chosen on account of their staying qualities, and they are proving their reputation as such,for up to this morning 3,010 ballots had been taken without a choice, and it is impossible to determine when the deadlock will end. The convention journed to-day to meet Sept. 24, when the struggle will be renewed. Thousands of people have visited the Senatorial camp, and a daily pa-| per has been printed on the ground. 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Maryville, Mo., Sept. 4.—The In ter State Harvest Home association -|met here to day, fully 500 strong in Among the matters entertained were the follow- delegates and visitors. ing preambies and resolutions: 3, 1895, Mr. mento, Cal., State Harvest Home meeting a Maryville, this State, stated “Tha the staples of by a bounty on their exports, bu markets of the world, a portion o: which is an export.” sarily follow that the producers o: injustice to the producers of agri cultural staples and Whereas. We the farmers of Mis. of the statements made by Mr. | Lubin and, believing, that Hon. | William McKinley, | imports, ITe,, dealing with the producer, as Chase & San- and Surries are etill going lively at our store because we give you the best goods for the We also report a lively movement in a GOOD ENOUGH OR FLYING Be sure you see See us when you want a Steel Range or a cast Whereas, On Tuesday, September David Lubin of Sacre- in an address to the farmers of Missouri, at the Inter- agriculture being largely exports, could be protected that a tariff on imports cannot pro- tect these staples sold in the open} He further made the assertion that because this is so, the staples of agriculture were not protected, but were sold at home and abroad at the world’s free trade prices. If this ia true, it must neces- agricultural staptes must pay for the entire cost of the protective sys- tem to manufacturers and receive no direct, or indirect benefit therefrom: Whereas, This, if true, would be souri, in mass meeting assembled, | desire to be informed as to the truth Ohio, is fully informed as to the’ resist, operation of protection by tariff on| would be asignel for the dismem-| The Campaign in Ohto. nited eall of his aE ion of y in Ohio, 'y to win is anothe iestly sa the ques ter. a Republican s: is natur State. The Dar have carried it but four times in teen years. , They won in 1877 by 22.000, in 1882 | by 19,000, in 1883 by 12,500, and in 11889, when Governcr Campbell was | the freight shed, elected 2 Fags 872. The average Republican plu-| |rality in their cleven victories be- | jtween 1879 and 1893, 20,000. In 1593, the tidal-wave year, a AES Halfa Millon. Boston, Mass.. Sept., 4.—Fire de- Campbell, who reluctant- | stroyed the extensive freight sheds |X : of the Boston and Albany Railroad. | % The British bark Barbadian. lying | N at the Boston and Albany wharf, was pulled out by tugs after one! The! steamer Burton, from Progreso, had |‘ of her yards had taken fire. just discharged 5,072 bales of hemp | at the Albany wharf, and the cargo! was burned, with the other goods in which also included ight, by 10,-!a large quantity of flower for export. | The Cunard steamer Cephalonia! beyond the blis- | was about | | tering of the paint and scorching of | was not damaged, | the rail on her starboard side | Goy. McKinley had 80,000 plurality, | jand last year the Republican eandi-| of which \date for Secretary of State had the |quite unprecedented plurality of |137,000. But Gen. Harrison barely lsaved the State by a plurality of {1,072 in 1892, and 128,000 Demo- i;./erats did rot vote last year who in| | voted for Cleveland in 1892. r Though naturally Republican, ,; therefore, Ohio is under normal con- ditions a contestable State. Gov. Campbell is very popular. Mr. Bushuell, the Republican candidate, jis very rich. Personally it is a man against a barrel. The contest is sure to be an animated one, with a Sena- |torship and perhaps a Presidential nowination at stake. Ifthe Demo- crats are really united on the ticket and will work for it there is possibly a fighting chance to win. The President's Greetings. San Francisco Post >} “A short time ago,” said Deputy United States Marshall Harris, “an : | old rancher up in the mountains of Lake County grew tired of walking five miles over the hills to get the country paper from his mail box, so he felled a big tree across the road |so that the stage would be compell- ed to travel a longer route that led past his house. A warrant was is- sued for his arrest for obstructing the United States mails, and I went up to serve it. “I found the old man sitting on his back porch smoking his corncob pipe, and commenced reading the warrant: ‘The President of the United States sends greetings.” Just then the long barrel of a muzzle- loading rifle was shoved out of the kitchen door and aimed at my head. I saw a nervous little gray-headed woman at the other end of the gun with her finger on the trigger. I could see a bright gray eye twink- ling through the buckhorn sigkt as she remarked: “ ‘You git, an’ don’t you come snoopin’ roun’ hyur agin. The President sent his greeiin’s onst be- fore, when the old man cut some timber on Gov’ment land, an’ it cost him ‘bout $100 an’ mighty nigh a month in jail. Then he found out that the President didn't know nuthin’ about it. If the President wants to be friendly with the ol man, he'll have to come right hyur without sendin’ no greetin’s. Git! ”’ f o| ? t t t t t Turkey is Threatened. Sept. 4.—It is officially announced here that Rus- tem Pasha, Turkish Ambassador to England, has telegraphed to the Foreign Minister that he had an interview relative to the Armenian question with Lord Salisbury, whom fj/he had assured that the Sublime Porte is not opposed to the reforms proposed by the powers signatory to the treaty of Berlin, but that Turkey could not permit control of Armenia by an international com- -| mission. Lord Salisbury replied that under -| the circumstances it would be use- less to continue the interview. If, he said, the Porte persists in its re-! fusal, the powers will undertake the | suggested reforms and rest satistied. f| Constantinople, 'berment of Turkey. The dispateh | | Resolved, That we respectfully| has caused the greatest uneasiness | and earnestly request the Hon. Wil-| | here. ‘liam McKinley to criticise and fully | Mr. now its| Lubin, to the end that we may be not, have now | properly informed on this important Call on! subject and that he do this in the lexplain said statements of | leading newspapers of Missouri. Speer’s Old Port Wine |N. J. bis Socialite Claret, vin. 1881,! and his luscious Burgundy stand/| lieve it to be a | unrivalled by any wines in the world | ,°'* P&S#25 ‘ especially for Invalids. from his Oporto Grape vineyards at Passaic, | “Trust Those who Have Tried.” ived great b take.—Wm, Fraze ry! A: Rochester, ) i Price ot Cream Bilm is fiity cents. [ | Governor of| If, however, the Porte continues to! 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