Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/218 - The Farmer's Sons

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 * The Farmer's Sons
 * A farmer once had a square piece of ground on which stood $24$ trees, exactly as shown in the illustration.


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 * He left instructions in his will that each of his eight sons should receive the same amount of ground and the same number of trees.
 * How was the land to be divided in the simplest possible manner?