52,145,519 yen.

In 1877 the area is reputed to have been 1,940,000 _cho_ with a yield
of 24,450,000 _koku_ and in 1882 2,580,000 _cho_ with a yield of
30,692,000 _koku_. The average of the five years 1910-14 was 3,033,000
_cho_ with a yield of 57,006,000 _koku_; of the five years 1915-19,
3,081,867 _cho_ with a yield of 94,817,431 _koku_.

In a prefecture in south-western Japan I found that 2 _koku_ 5 _to_
(or 2-1/2 _koku_, there being 10 _to_ in a _koku_) per _tan_ was
common and that from 3 _koku_ to 3 _koku_ 5 _to_ was reached. "A good
yield for 1 _tan_," says an eminent authority, "is 3 _koku_, or on the
best fields even 4 _koku_." The average yield in _koku_ per _tan_ for
the whole country has been (paddy-field rice only): 1882, 1.19;
1894-8, 1.38; 1899-1903, 1.44; 1904-8, 1.57; 1909-13, 1.63; 1914-18,
1.86; 1919, 1.99; 1920, 2.05 (ordinary, 2.06; glutinous, 1.92). Upland
rice in 1920, 1.30 as against 1.02 in 1909. All these figures are for
husked, uncleaned rice.

BARLEY AND WHEAT CROPS [XVI]. The following table (average of five
years, 1913-17) shows the yields per _tan_ of the two sorts of barley
and of wheat and the average yield all three together in comparison
with the rice yield (all quantities husked):

_go_ _go_
Barley 1,672 | All three together 1,307
Naked barley 1,172 | Rice 1,808
Wheat 1,073 |

Naked barley is grown as an upland crop, as are ordinary barley and
wheat; but it is more largely grown as a second crop in paddies than
either barley or wheat. The barleys are chiefly used for human food
with or without rice. Wheat is eaten in macaroni, sweetstuffs and
bread. It is also used in considerable quantities in the manufacture
of soy, the chief ingredient of which is beans. There was imported in
the year 1920 wheat to the value of 28-1/2 million yen, and flour to
the value of 3-1/4 million yen. Macaroni is largely made of buckwheat
as well as of wheat. The other grain crop is millet, which is eaten by
the poorest farmers. In 1918, as against 60 million _koku_ of rice,
there were grown 5 million _koku_ of beans and peas. The crops of
barley were 17 million, of wheat 6 million, of millet 3-1/4 million,
and of buckwheat 3/4 million. More than a million _kwan_ of sweet
potatoes were produced and nearly half a million of "Irish" potatoes.
(The figures for barley and wheat are for 1919.)

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