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provided to carry off the excessive waterfall during 
heavy showers. 
Because of the large population of Zuhi many of 
their fields are at a great distance; the people move in 
large numbers to the neighborhood of these fields where 
the summer villages of Nutria, Pescado, and Ojo 
Caliente are maintained. Mr. Frank H. Cushing has 
described the old Zuni method of agriculture. A man 
without land chose a piece of ground where a gulch 
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Hoes and Throwing Stick. 
opened into a valley or on to the margin of the plain. 
Across this he made an earthen dam which retained 
the water and mud brought down during heavy rains. 
Since the gulch was ordinarily a dry one, the water 
did not stand for any length of time but enough of it 
sank into the ground to supply what moisture was > 
needed for a crop of corn. 
