ns, as follows:

Produced or obtained by the Farmer | Purchased
yen | yen
Compost 63,500,000 | Bean cake 32,000,000
Human waste 54,000,000 | Mixed 17,000,000
Green manure 9,600,000 | Miscellaneous 16,000,000
Rice chaff 5,000,000 | Sulphate of ammonia 15,000,000
| Superphosphate 12,000,000
| Fish waste 12,000,000

Dr. Sato puts the artificial manure used per _tan_ at a sixth of that
of Belgium and a quarter of that of Great Britain and Germany. See
also Appendix IV. An agricultural expert once said to me, "Japanese
farmer he keep five head of stock, his own family."

SOWING OF RICE [XXI]. A common seeding time is the eighty-eighth day
of the year according to the old calendar, say May 1 or 2.
Transplanting is very usual at the end of May or early in June. In
Kagawa, Shikoku, I found that rice was sown at the beginning of May or
even at the end of April, the transplanting being done in mid-June.
The harvest was obtained 10 per cent. about September 10th, 30 per
cent. in October and 60 per cent. about the beginning of November. The
winter crop of naked barley was sown in the first quarter of December
and was harvested late in May or early in June, so there was just time
for the rice planting in mid-June.

In Kochi the first crop is sown about March 15, the seedlings are put
out in mid-May and the harvest is ready about August 10. The second
crop, which has been sown in June, is ready with its seedlings from
August 13 to August 15, and the harvest arrives about November 1 and
2. The first crop may yield about 3 _koku_, the second 1-1/2 _koku_.

A good deal depends in raising a big crop on a good seed bed. This is
got by reducing the quantity of seed used and by applying manure
wisely. Whereas formerly as much as from 5 to 7 _go_ of seed was sown
per _tsubo_, the biggest crops are now got from 1 _go_.

The Japanese names of the most widely grown varieties are Shinriki,
Aikoku, Omachi, Chikusei and Sekitori. At an experiment station I
copied the names of the varieties on exhibition there: Banzai,
Patriotism, Japanese Embroidery, Good-looking, Early Power of God,
Bamboo, Small Embroidery, Power of God, Mutual Virtue, Yellow Bamboo,
Late White, Power of God (glutinous), Silver Rice Cake