Doctor King has recently investigated thoroughly the agricultural conditions in Japan. Korea. and China and explains how. due to cheapness of labor. it is not found profitable in those countries to irrigate the land by means of modern pumps operated by machinery. He shows that the coolie labor in China gets $8.60 (American money) per year. with board and lodging. and we know that this labor is fed entirely on rice. of which so much is cultivated in the Orient that our total American production is less than 1 per cent of their production. Chinese labor. therefore. is necessarily very cheap. The irrigating pumps in the Orient are operated by man power.