Peasant life in the Holy Land . is ploughed next, and so on till thewliole is completed. These plots are called MacnuVi,and are usually one-third or one-fourth of a Fedddn,and in some parts of the maritime plain this is usedas a measure of land instead of the latter the hill districts, on the terraced sides of thevalleys and mountains, the shape and size of thepiece ploughed at one time is determined by thedimensions of the terraces. Where two mens landadjoins each other, a double furrow is driven be-tween the two plots, and piles of stones are set upat short intervals in this furrow.
Peasant life in the Holy Land . is ploughed next, and so on till thewliole is completed. These plots are called MacnuVi,and are usually one-third or one-fourth of a Fedddn,and in some parts of the maritime plain this is usedas a measure of land instead of the latter the hill districts, on the terraced sides of thevalleys and mountains, the shape and size of thepiece ploughed at one time is determined by thedimensions of the terraces. Where two mens landadjoins each other, a double furrow is driven be-tween the two plots, and piles of stones are set upat short intervals in this furrow. There is a refer-ence to this practice in Hos. xii. 11, the idea therebeing that the altars of the idolatrous Israeliteswere as numerous as the boundary heaps in a widestretch of arable land. Although oxen are chiefly used to draw theplough, yet one not unfrequently sees oxen andasses yoked together, a practice forbidden to theIsraelites (Deut. xxii. 10). The Fellahin recognisethe disparity of such a pair, and often contrive to. THRESHING CORN.
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