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Korean Rice Fields.
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Fig. 12.—Landscape in Korea, showing subdivision of the valley surface into small irregular fields separated only by narrow, low ridges of earth scarcely more than a foot wide and high. The center field is planted to rice, fields on the right are plowed and watered but not fitted, the ridged field on the left is watered but not plowed.