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Either that or they started on the kaoliang a week early.— Taipei Times
At Mukden the kaoliang was selling as fuel at $2.70 to $3.00, Mexican, for a 100-bundle load of stalks, weighing seven catty to the bundle.— Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan
122. The mounds in the background of the lower view are graves; the fence behind the animals is made from the stems of the large millet, kaoliang, while that at the right of the donkey is made of earth, both indicative of the scarcity of lumber.— Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan
At a number of other places along the way before Mukden was reached such protected areas were passed and oftenest on the north side of wide, now nearly dry, stream channels As we passed on toward Shanhaikwan we were carried over broad plains even more nearly level and unobstructed than any to be found in the corn belt of the middle west, and these too planted with corn, kaoliang, wheat and beans, and with the low houses hidden in distant scattered clusters of trees dotting the wide plain on either side, with not a fence, and nothing to suggest a road anywhere in sight.— Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan
Most frequently two rows of maize, kaoliang or millet alternated with the soy beans and usually not more than twenty-eight inches apart, sharp high ridge cultivation being the general practice.— Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan
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