Chinese agriculture

Chinese agriculture. Peasants planting a field with a seeding machine (a hopper with two pipes leading to pronged feet), man irrigating a field on a water pump, man operating a toothed milling machine to remove the husk from the rice, plow. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843

Bernieri Bran Ferrario Giulio Hopper Husk Irrigation Peasants Plow Seeding

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