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EGYPTIAN AGRICULTURE. 



Hand grain -cleaning utensils consist of circular riddles 

 of varying meshes, sieves and menofahs. The latter is a 



FIG. 45. GHAIX-CLKANING IMPLEMENTS. 



semicircular riddle made entirely of wood, and is used to 

 separate heavy foreign matter from the grain. 



Maize Shelters are found to be of great utility. The 

 cobs are fed into the machine and pass between revolv- 

 ing spiked discs which disintegrate the grain from the 

 cobs. Small machines worked by hand may be got 

 for 600 P. T. while large ones, shelling seventy ardebs 

 per hour and requiring 6 H. P. to drive them, cost 

 L. E. 120. 



