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The Dingoberry Farm is a 10 mile by 10 mile square, broken up into 1 mile by 1 mile patches. Each patch is farmed either by Farmer Keith or by Farmer Ann. Whenever Ann farms a patch, she also farms all the patches due west of it and all the patches due south of it. Ann puts up a scarecrow on each of her patches that is adjacent to exactly two of Keith's patches (and nowhere else). If Ann farms a total of 30 patches, what is the largest number of scarecrows she could put up?

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