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Cultivation and tillage 



and to grow up without any attention. Weeds floui-inlied, 

 but the wheat did not; the next year there was but 

 little wheat, and by 1886 only a few plants could be 

 seen, so stunted that one would hardly recognise them. 



The hoed plot, no weeds 



Fig. 44 a. 

 Maize cannot compete' successfully against weeds 



The ground still remains untouched, and is now the 

 dense thicket seen in Fig. 45. Most of our land would 

 become like this if it were neglected for a few years. 



