. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. pointed (Jig. ? a) ; next, by having itflattened, sharpened, and shod with iron (b c) ; Iand lastly, by forming the head entirely ofmetal, and forked (</), such probably as we see it in use in Judea, and the land of Canaan,at the present day. 21. Vineyard* were planted on rising grounds, fenced round, the soil well prepared, anda vintage-house an
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. pointed (Jig. ? a) ; next, by having itflattened, sharpened, and shod with iron (b c) ; Iand lastly, by forming the head entirely ofmetal, and forked (</), such probably as we see it in use in Judea, and the land of Canaan,at the present day. 21. Vineyard* were planted on rising grounds, fenced round, the soil well prepared, anda vintage-house and watch-tower built in a central situation (Isaiah, v. 2.), as is stilldone iii European Turkey and Italy. Moses gives directions to the Jews for culti-vating the vine and other fruit trees ; the three first years after planting, the fruit is notto be eaten ; the fourth it is to be given to the Lord; and it is not till the fifth yearthat they are to eat of the fruit thereof. (Levi!., xix. 25.) The intention of theseprecepts was, to prevent the trees from being exhausted by bearing, before they hadacquired sufficient strength and establishment in the soil. 22. Of other agricultural operations and customs, it may be observed with Dr. Brown,. BoaK i. AGRICULTURE OF ANTIQUITY. 9 (Antiq. of the Jews, vol. ii. part xii. sect. 5, 6.) that they differed v*ry little from theexisting practices in the same countries, as described by modern travellers. 23. The agricultural produce of the Jews was the same as among the Egyptians ; corn,wine, oil, fruits, milk, honey, sheep, and cattle, but not swine. The camel then, as now,was the beast of burden and long journeys {jig, 8.) ; and the horse, the animal of war and
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