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moisture, it is useful to run a mouklboard plough clown the chap. 

 rows to throw up the earth around the maize roots and form a IX ' 

 shallow channel down which the surface water can run instead 



Fig. 150. — " Single Dutchman " cultivator. (Courtesy of Messrs. Malcomess 



& Co.) 



Fig. 151.— Adjustable cultivator. (Courtesy of Messrs. Malcomess & Co.) 



of standing. The maize plant does not like stagnant water, 

 and many a crop has been saved by this simple method of 

 treatment. 



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