Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1878 — Agriculture in Japan. [ARTICLE]

Agriculture in Japan.

Japan cultivates 9,000,000 acres, onetenth of her entire area, though about one-fourth of her fertile area. She supports a population of three and a half persons to every cultivated acre. Most of her people live on fish and vegetables; her great lack is live stock. Milk is not used as an article of food, and what few cows there are are employed for plowing.