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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 6, 1 July 1911, Page 9

Japan has a. total population of 51.000,000, of which 60 per cent., or .11,000,000, are dependent for their livelihood on agriculture. Anyone who possesses more j than 75 acres of land is looked upon a.s a | large landed proprietor, since an ordinary landowner's estate does not exceed 85 Acres. Tenants' rents are by no means bw.the rent ranging from 44 per cent. to 57 per cent, of the gross products of the farm. Were it not for the fact that cops are raised twice, thrice, and even four times a year the tenants could not Their "farms" vary in size from len a«res to 3.08 acres*, on which they support a household consisting sometimes ofisix members. To some extent they flic to rely on subsidiary occupations, Hhi as making mats, baskets, paper and articles, such work being done at Seventy per cent, cultivate less moro than 7% acres. Rice, of |Hksc, is the principal crop, and its anHH' value is equal to that of all other HHnh;iii nivei considcis and pas an abstiaet Tt is assocnted al RBK i n her imagination with the man or |OH the men she has loved; with the the men who have loved