. My experiences of Cyprus; being an account of the people, mediæval cities and castles, antiquities and history of the island of Cyprus: to which is added a chapter on the present economic and political problems which affect the island as a dependency of the British empire . he Island of Cyprus. sits or stands the driver, exactly as carriedout on the threshing-floor of Ornun theJebusite; and the old Biblical injunction, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadethout the corn, is faithfully observed. Thisextremely primitive method of threshinggreatly reduces the value of the grain inforeign mar
. My experiences of Cyprus; being an account of the people, mediæval cities and castles, antiquities and history of the island of Cyprus: to which is added a chapter on the present economic and political problems which affect the island as a dependency of the British empire . he Island of Cyprus. sits or stands the driver, exactly as carriedout on the threshing-floor of Ornun theJebusite; and the old Biblical injunction, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadethout the corn, is faithfully observed. Thisextremely primitive method of threshinggreatly reduces the value of the grain inforeign markets, owing to it becoming mixedwith stones and dirt from the threshing-floor, and which can only be separated after-wards at great trouble and expense. Besidesthis, there is a great waste of the straw,owing to much of it being ground to apowder, which is, of course, unfit for usefor either cattle or horses, and before givingones pony a feed of barley, it has to becarefully passed through a sieve to get ridof this powdered straw, which would beinjurious to the animal. To give an idea of how slow this opera-tion of threshing is, a pair of bullocksthresh about eight kilos per diem (kilo = abushel). This threshing board does morethan merely separate the grain from the 96. On the Natives and some of their Customs. ear (the treading of the oxen is sufficientfor that purpose), it also tears up the strawinto small pieces for use as fodder. It con-sists of three planks joined together length-wise by cross pieces, and studded underneathwith flints; one end is turned up like therunners of a sleigh, to admit of attachmentto the yoke of the oxen. Winnowing is also a very slow operation,as it can only be carried out when the daybreeze has set in. Sometimes this wouldnot arise till after lo , and would diedown soon after 4 , and as all workceases for an hour, at least, at mid-day, thisonly allows about five hours in which tocarry on the operation while the wind blowssteadily from on
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