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complete. Winnowing machines cost from 750 P.T. to 

 1,200 P.T. according to size. 



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I land Implements are not numerous. The Fass is the 

 most useful and it may be described as a heavy hand hoe, 

 shaped like an adze. The Maazaka is used instead of the 

 fass when working in wet mud. It is lighter and not so 

 deep but longer faced. The face is curved inwards so that 

 the mud does not cling to it so much as if it were straight. 



The Midrah is a wooden live-pronged fork having a 

 handle a metre and a half long. It is used for throwing 

 into the air the tibn and grain after the crop has been 

 thrashed by the iiorag. It is really a primitive process 

 of winnowing, see Fig. 39. 



