2. "Around the homestead with its five mow, the space beneath the walls was planted with mulberry trees, with which the women nourished silkworms,and thus the old were able to have silk to wear. Eachfamily had five brood hens and two brood sows, which were kept to their breeding seasons, and thus the old were able to have flesh to eat. The husbandmen cultivated their farms of 100 mow, and thus their families of eight mouths were secured against want.
3. "The expression, ＇The chief of the West knows well how to nourish the old,＇ refers to his regulation of the fields and dwellings, his teaching them to plant the mulberry and nourish those animals, and his instructing the wives and children, so as to make them nourish their aged.