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accessories, casks with their lids to hold 800 

 cullei, twenty tubs to hold grapes, twenty to hold 

 corn, and other things of the same kind. Fewer of 

 these are certainly recommended by other writers, 

 but I think that Cato set down so large a number of 

 cullei that the farmer might not be compelled to sell 

 his wine every year. For old wines fetch more than 

 new, and the same wine more at one time than 



5 another. He also writes at great length about the 

 different kinds of tools, their nature and number, 

 mentioning knives, shovels, harrows, etc., of which 

 some kinds include several sorts. For example, 

 knives: we are told by the same author that forty 

 pruning knives are needed for the vines, five small 

 knives for cutting string, etc., three for pruning trees 

 and ten for clearing brambles. So much for this 

 point. 



6 Said Scrofa: The owner should have an invent- 

 ory of all the implements and furniture of the farm 

 — one copy at the farm, the other in town; while 

 the bailiff should keep all the things mentioned in 

 the inventory each in its proper place at the farm- 

 house. Those which cannot be kept under lock 

 and key should be placed in as conspicuous a posi- 

 tion as possible — more especially those which are 

 employed only occasionally, such as the baskets, 

 etc., used at the vintage. For what is seen every 

 day runs less risk from the thief. 



