Abstract
This is a general report of landutilization in the clearings on the volcano Akagi, and is summarized as follows:- 1. The clearings on the southern slope are mainly cropped to rice and wheat, and, owing to the dry soil and the strong wind, their yields are rather poor, but the settlers, to cope with these disadvantages, have generally no other means than the selection of some suitable varieties of crops and the betterment of the m Method of cultivation. In some clearings, however, where there are many such settlers as were formerly engaged in some other buisinesses then farming, some social activities besides cultivation of commercial crops are being taken into consideration for the establishment of the prosperous settlements.
2. In the clearings on the southwestern slope, the settlers have also to make a choice between selfsupporting and commercial crops, and in this choice, the former crops, owing to the cold climate, are poor, especially in their transportation to markets, and so in either case, the life there is a hard one.
