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Show Farm Implements Crude Each rice bed in China has a dam about a foot high. Implements are simple, cheap, light, easily repaired at home. The iron-shod wooden plows used to sell for less than So. A farmer carried his plow on his shoulders, like as not stored it in his living room. Motive power was bullocks, oxen, ponies, donkeys or mules. Failing Snimal horsepower, the farmer and his family put their backs into the plowing. Basic idea of "wet farming" is to stir the good earth to a soupy consistency before planting. |