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English: Collecting reservoir for the conservation of rainfall and fertility, used also as fish ponds and to provide water and mud for making composts. The circular ring in the foreground is a compost pit.
Date published 1911
Source F. H. King, Farmers of forty centuries, 1911, p. 115.
Author Unknown photographerUnknown photographer
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