My Family and Other Animals

Why do they refer to the fields as the "Chessboard Fields".

Why do they refer to the fields as the "Chessboard Fields".

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The "chessboard fields" referred to the way crops were planted and how they looked from a distance.

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My Family and Other Animals, pg. 236