Should have considered this before shooting off the first response: don't the
countries you mentioned subsist mostly on rice (+ whatever else is
available)? A
couple of acres can provide an awful lot, if you know what you're doing...but
if
half of it's underwater rice paddy?
Sandy
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:54:56 -0700 (PDT), VAN DELL JORDAN wrote:
>
> Are any of you acquainted with "Dover Publications".
> They do a lot of reprints.
> A couple of my new ones are "Old Time Farm and
> Garden Devices and How to Make Them". I have several
> similar to that.
> One that is different is "Farmers of 40 Centuries"
> An agricultural professor made a trip to Japan, Korea,
> and China about 1910 and wrote about how these farmers
> could support a family on a couple acres of ground and
> could sustain that for hundreds of generations.
> www.doverpublications.com
> Van Dell
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