. The world's commercial products [microform] : a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses. Plant products; Produits naturels; Produits végétaux; Natural products; Botanique agricole; Botany, Economic. 32 â ^he World's Commercial Products After tins cvcrytliinK >^^ I'lmud ..- far as The primitive farmer uses the wood that ran b.^ removed. i)ilin.: it u], as a hedge round his field. The thick tree-stumps, hardly attaeked by the tire at all, remain : tlu- felled trunks which resisted the fire he simply leaves lying where the>- are. T
. The world's commercial products [microform] : a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses. Plant products; Produits naturels; Produits végétaux; Natural products; Botanique agricole; Botany, Economic. 32 â ^he World's Commercial Products After tins cvcrytliinK >^^ I'lmud ..- far as The primitive farmer uses the wood that ran b.^ removed. i)ilin.: it u], as a hedge round his field. The thick tree-stumps, hardly attaeked by the tire at all, remain : tlu- felled trunks which resisted the fire he simply leaves lying where the>- are. These are (,ften nearly fifty \ar(l> long and so enormous that a grown-up man cannot kir k over them. Now the rainy season is coming when the sowing must begin. The cleared spot has to be dug, and sometimes are mad.'. .\ small giiard-liouse is erected, for all sorts of .immals might otherw-e make short work of the har\vst, or i)erhaps even eat the sown seed There are the elephants, \ciy fond of and capable of trampling down the hedge ⢠deer, boars, monkeys, and other animals, who would dq)rixe man of his harvest without the least respect for his hedge of lialf-bunicd w<io( A SlMl'LE MKTHOI) (IF IHKI(;.\TIN(, ,\ RICK FIULI) IN SI/ al this IS ready the people get out their ,>lanting-sticks. In the civilised world a planting-stick is a simple piece of woo<l without any characteristic. After lone use It has perhaps been polished by the lough hand , f the field-labourer. But here it ranks higluT as one of the few agricultural It is s(,metimes very long, so that he who uses It need not stoop. It is made of very hard wood, ebony, perhaps, for it must be strong enough not to break agains t u' roots, which are left in the soil, and it is ornamented as such L ihe'kind < H, '" "r ''"''f ""â¢'^ "'*'' ''"-â P'-ting-stick are put a few seeds of he kind of rue hat grows in dry soil, c
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