[ [242] See [Appendix XXXVII].
[ [243] The latest figures for Hokkaido show only a tenth.
[ [244] For farmers' incomes, see [Appendix XIII].
[ [245] For sizes of farms, see [Appendix LXIV].
[ [246] For a tenant's contract, see [Appendix LXV].
CHAPTER XXXVIII
SHALL THE JAPANESE EAT BREAD AND MEAT?
Bon yori shoko (Proof, not argument)
One day in Tokyo I heard a Japanese who was looking at a photograph of a British woman War-worker feeding pigs ask if the animals were sheep. Sheep are so rare in Japan that an old ram has been exhibited at a country fair as a lion. In contrast with Western agriculture based on live stock we have in Japan an agriculture based on rice.[[247]] But a section of the Japanese agricultural world turns its eyes longingly to mixed farming, and so, when I returned to Sapporo from my trip to the north of Hokkaido, I was taken to see a Government stock farm—with a smoking volcano in the background. Hokkaido has four other official farms, one belonging to the Government and one for raising horses for the army. I was shown, in addition to horses, Ayrshire, Holstein and Brown Swiss cattle, Berkshire and Yorkshire pigs and Southdown and Shropshire sheep in good buildings. I noticed two self-binders and a hay loader and I beheld for the first time in Japan a dairymaid and collies—one was of a useless show type.