LARGER FARMS
JAPAN ADOPTS AMERICAN WAY.
INFLUENCE ON TECHNIQUE
A staff correspondent of the "Christian Science Monitor," writing from Tokio at the end of November, says fresh evidence of the extent that American technique influences Japanese | ways has developed through, the deoils ions to employ large-scale farming I methods similar to those used in the I western United States among the agri- ■ cultural emigrants to Manchuria. This plan is known as the "Hokjkaido method.’’ after the Hokkaido dis-, ■ iriet in northern Japan, but actually it: lis Americim m origin. Hokkaido found i that American ways best lilted the; ! farm country of this northerly island. I I specially m connection with wheat-! 'lai.-ing. And now, after trying various
types of the jtmcalled "Manchukuo method.” which is ewentinlly smallcalc truck furmiiiil. the Manchuktm Development Company has eonciuded that once mure American ways arc best, whatever may be thought about American political ideas The first six groups c-f emigrants sent ■ iii! by the Manchuria Immigration. A •- M>e:atem, which began operations io 1937 • ) .:lh a I’wciity - Year Plan expect-i < U tn put I.OOOIHhi families m Man--churia by Ilia", utilised rhe M;u;ehuktiM method with mdiifereut suewew. Thei .evetith group' al Peihstiehieu, Northi Manchuria, found thfit lite Hokkaido <>r : American method gave bigger erejiS” <—p«-ci;iHy <*f wheat ami soya beans- ■- with less labour Um- difheulty is bound to be m the 1 matter .-f larp-.-eale Am<Tic:m typ. farming instruments required for iy>e T tiic Hokkaido method El'l’orts are be-i i:.? made, it appear.--, to persuade Jap-' am- e manufacture: s l<> provide tin • <■ InH the munitiolo busim-w i Keeping; mo. • of them busy When it < - io finding R.roigi • ■ i.-h:me<- for purchases m Amcrsca a.M; <■l ■ ie-<Mant'hul-;u<- is' up ng.di ! the i'ame shm'agv thar holds u|> mold-; ing openitinm: and many olhm- aetiv -1 . There ; m> ;.üb'd>tule <■-! c.Ju; .I’l When !,i i--.;-. abo.ad and .'.i.iiich!.! i.i • .it i,n .1 barter roe. with Germany. th*m found itself with-; < Hi even diaiwe for barter Tin .-. ■ -i.;;- one M li-e m.itA m ’ar.- , to-; v, h*-re .kipan ami rhe Jaoariv >- find; ■hem• ch. ei' Amvre-.i m me’h •: ■ ■ lhan t Germa ■ Yet
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1941, Page 6
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351LARGER FARMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1941, Page 6
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