Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-09-27

that too much care could not be devo-
ted to it, and for tue same reason
ploBmen among the Greeks were
always selected from persons over
forty years of age, who having, it was
presumed, sown their own wild oats,
would give more care to those Of their
employers. Narrowing, according to
Cicero, derives its name 0ccatie, from
its confning what is hidden within the
bosom Of the earth, covering the seed
having been with the Greek and R9.
mans the only purpose Of that instru-
ment. s-9aFl aaa Asla sal9L @
The Egytiaps used hoes, or rather
picks, looking like a scythe or letter
A. made Of wook, and one limb shor-
ter than the other, with which they
picked the ground to pieces after the
pillow had passed. See Isaiah, Z; %.
The monern Egyptians have invented
a substitute for the hoe, to be used
after blowing, called "hedge- hog -
which is a regular cod crusher, not
unlike those used in England, and
first brought into notice at the great
Exhibition of 1851, consisting of a
cylinder, studded with projecting iron
pins. Wilkinson says they top
dressed with nitrous soil, which was
spread on the soil, (and the custom is
continued to the present day, but this
was confined to certain crops, and
these reared late in the year.
Of their other manures we kHow
but little, but as from the scarcity of
wood, all Eastern nations we're in the
habit of using dung for fuel, they de-
pended probably principally upon ir.
rigation and following the land, and
the necessity of the latter is the rea
son it was so strongly enjoined by the
law givers. Levitt. 18: %; 25: 8 F.;
Hosea. 10: - This seventh years
fallow prevented the exhaustion ofthe
soil, which was further enriched by
the burning of the weeds, and spon.
taneous growth of the slbbatieal years. x
The corn when ripe was cut with either
sickle or Scythe, and was bound into
sheaves, and conveyed with carts at
once to the threshing floor or barn.
1t was never stacked. The threshing
floor were as in the East now, level
plots of ground in the open air. 2
SAM, "a: 18. Wilkinson's Egypt
The wind there removed the chief part
of the chaff. Thrash, says Hesiod, in
a breezy place and on well rounded
floors. Oxen generally tron Over the
grain, and pigs, asses, goats. &C., ac-
cording to Herodotus, trod IN the seed,
after it was sowed. The OK was un-
muzzled, (Deut. 25, 4, and eat as he
went his rounds. In later times the
Jews appear to have used threshing
instruments. l Chron., 21: 21
Isaiah, Al !: Is, and the modern Egyp-
tians have machine called 'aCOreg,'
with iron plates, with which they
bruise the ears of corn and extract the
grain, at the same time the straw is
chopped up. Corn, in all countries
except these United States, meaning
all the small grained cereals except
Indian corn or maize.
Instances of stall-fed oxen are no
ticeable on the exhumed paintings
and this custom accords with the scrip
tural account Of the preservation OF
cattle which had been brought home
from the field, and explains the appa
rent contradiction in Exodus 9; '16
19, &C., all the cattle in the stalls OF
houses having been preserved.
o Though, as we learn from the sculp
lures, the Egyptians had houses anc
} other fit appliances, yet among mos
of the eastern nations as among mod
ern farmers, especially the Dutch, tht
barns were more important, and unit
the land was well cultivated, and th'
necessary recetacles for its yield pre-
pared, the accommodations for tn,
owner were not much attended to-
= Prepare the work without, and max
it fit for thyself in the field and at
: terwGrds build thy house says tn,
: wisest of men. Proy. "a; q.
1 ncsiods advice, On the contrary
was first of all get house and
3 woman, and plowjng OK, and all fit
; ting implements, lest you should asl
of anolher and he refuse, and you b
in want of them, so the season shall
) pass by and your labor's fruit be less
s ened." Is not the latter part of thi
: advice of the old Greek. delivered owe
: two thousand years since, fully as ap
n pIicable to the present ago of mOwint
machines, horse rakes, and other in
: dispensables? R. G.
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