ety of Japan_, 1916.

[289] For the question, is rice the right crop for Japan? See Appendix
LXXIX.

[290] Dr. Yahagi in an address delivered in Italy pointed out to his
audience that Japan had 15 times as large an area under rice as Italy
and that, while the Italian harvest ranged between 42 and 83
hectolitres per hectare, the Japanese ranged between 55 and 130. The
area under rice in the United States in 1920 was 1,337,000 acres and
the yield 53,710,000 bushels. The area under rice has steadily
increased since 1913, when it was only 25,744,000 bushels.

[291] A well-informed Japanese who read this Chapter doubted the
ability of his countrymen to distinguish between native and Korean,
Californian or Texan rice. Saigon is another matter. See Appendix
XXIV.

[292] "Some of our statesmen," notes a Japanese reader of this
Chapter, "are carried away by ideas of an industrial El Dorado." Such
men have no understanding of the relation of rural Japan to the
national welfare. They are as blind guides as the Japanese who, caught
by the glamour of the West, threw away the artistic treasures of their
forefathers and pulled down beautiful temples and _yashiki_. Japan has
much to gain from a wise and just industrial system, but not a little
of the present industrialisation is an exploitation of cheap labour, a
destruction of craftsmanship and social obligation, and an attempt to
cut out the foreigner by the production of rubbish.

[293] The chairman of Rothamsted declares as I write that the standard
of English farming could be raised 50 per cent. Hall and Voelcker have
estimated that 20 million tons of farmyard manure made in the United
Kingdom is wasted through avoidable causes.

[294] For a discussion of the question of inner colonisation versus
foreign expansion, see Appendix LXXX.

[295] For figures bearing on the relative importance of agriculture,
commerce and industry, see Appendix LXXXI. For armaments, see Appendix
XXXIII.

[296] There are many Britons who now reflect that millions which have
gone into Mesopotamia might have been better spent by the Ministries
of Health and Education.

The blessing of her sun-warmed days;
Her sea-spun cloak of wet;
Her pointing valleys, veiled in haze,
Where field and wood have met;
When we have gone our differing ways
These we shall not forget.
L.T., in _The New East_.

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