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Learn lessons from them. They use fertilizer in the form of liquid and
put it on the growing plant rather than on the soil as we do. The farmer
will feed his plants with the same regularity and care that our farmers
feed and care for their horses and cattle. Every drop of urine and every
particle of night soil is preserved for fertilizer. This is saved in
earthen jars and gathered, mostly by women, each morning. A Chinese
contractor paid the city of Shanghai $31,000 in gold in a single year
for the privilege of collecting the human waste and selling it to the
farmers around near the city. Where a beast of burden is at work a boy
or girl is near with a long handled dipper ready to catch the urine and
droppings as they fall. In China the farmers have always been held in
high esteem. While the scholar is highest, the farmer is second on the
list in the social scale. It is interesting to know that the soldier is
fifth or last on the list because his work is to destroy rather than to
build up. The hoe is an emblem of honor in China. For hundreds of years
the Emperor with his nobles went every spring to the Temple of
Agriculture to offer sacrifice. After this ceremony they all went to a
field near the temple and paid honor to the tillers of the soil. At a
yellow painted plow, to which was