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HOW THE DUTCHMAN LIVES.

Volume : 14
Issue: Sep-oct
Pages: 359 - 362
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Abstract


In his interesting book published seventeen years ago, Mr. Robertson Scott called us "Free farmers in a Free State." This characterisation of our farmers is still absolutely correct. As to the land, in more than half of the country, from day to day, from year to year, from century to century, our farmers have had of course to fight aginst water. Nearly 35 per cent of the surface of our country is alluvial. This explains the great ertility.

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359 - 362
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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