These are as follows:The holding tends to increase
in size. These areas in turn slowly yielded to thesame decline which had taken place
in Italy. What are the chief characteristics of thisEastern farming? Failure to
achieve this naturally ended inthe ruin of both.
These figures illustrate how intense is the
strugglefor existence in this portion of the tropics. Another of the features ofthe
agriculture of the West is the development of agricultural science.
How the plantprofits is easier to
understand.
The main characteristics of the various methods
ofagriculture have been summarized. At these periods time is everything: everybody
works from sunriseto sunset. For the momentfarming has been made to pay. The
vegetable and animal wastes are again dealt with byeffective methods. Engines and
motors of various kinds are the rule everywhere. The crops and live stock look after
themselves.
The jute industry of Bengal has grown up within a
century.
Growth on the oneside: decay on the
other.
Secrett was, I believe, the firstto introduce this
system on a large scale into Great Britain. On the otherhand, in most Oriental
countries human wastes find their way back to theland.
The chief food crops in order of importance are
rice, pulses millets,wheat, and fodder crops. Whenever a machine canbe invented
which saves human or animal labour its spread is rapid. Why does soil fertility so
markedly influence the soil, the plant, andthe animal? The most important possession
of a country is its population.
At these periods time is everything: everybody
works from sunriseto sunset.
Theelectrification of agriculture is beginning. The
most significant of these are theoperations of Nature as seen in the forest.
Asubsidiary hunger is that of the machine which needs raw materials formanufacture.
We know fromlong experience that the fields of India can respond to the hunger of
thestomach.
These figures illustrate how intense is the
strugglefor existence in this portion of the tropics. All this addsto the burden on
the land and to the calls on its fertility.
At these periods time is everything: everybody
works from sunriseto sunset. The plunder of the forest soilwas beyond their
reach.
The land has either gone back to forest orhas been
used for one system of farming after another.
It is therefore a key material in the life
cycle.
Theelectrification of agriculture is
beginning.
In Natures farming a balance is struck
andmaintained between these two complementary processes.
On the answer to this question the future
ofcivilization depends. We need not strive after quantitative results: the
qualitativewill often serve. The loss offertility all over the world is indicated by
the growing menace of soilerosion.
The reserves are carried in theupper layers of the
soil in the form of humus.