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Rh 8,742,000 slippers worth $34,000; 6,254,000 sandals worth $30,000; and miscellaneous articles worth $64,000. This is a gross earning of more than $21,000,000 from eleven and a half townships of farm land and the labor of the farmers' families, an average earning of $80 per acre on nearly three-fourths of the farm land of this prefecture. At this rate three of the four forties of our 160-aere farms should bring a gross annual income of $9,600 and the fourth forty should pay the expenses.

Fig. 179.—Large wooden mortar used for the polishing of rice in Japan.

At the Nara Experiment Station we were informed that