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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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HAPPY BECAUSE THE NEW CROP WIEE SOON BE IN 



The Japanese farmer's devices for cultivating the soil are curious in their primitiveness. 

 The picture shows the wooden spade used for turning up the soil. The remainder of the 

 cultivation will probably be done with a heavy single-bladed hoe for digging, a three-prong hoe 

 for breaking the soil, and other queer home-made things, such as sickles and pruning-hooks 

 with straight handles and curved blades set at right angles. 



Photographs from E. Gertrude Beasley 

 "THE PLOWMAN HOMEWARD peods HIS weary way" 



