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CHAPTER LXIII 



ON BRINGING CORN OUT OF STORE 



For its preservation: that corn must be brought 

 out which weevils are beginning to eat. When it 

 has been got out, pans of water must be placed in 

 the sun, as the weevils crowd to them and commit 

 suicide. 



Those who keep their corn in those underground! 

 chambers called siros must get it out some consider-j 

 able time after opening, as it is dangerous to enter] 

 them when newly opened — so much so that people 

 have been suffocated. Spelt that you have stored 

 in the ear during summer, and wish to prepare for 

 food, must be taken out in winter time to be pounded' 

 in the mill and roasted. 



CHAPTER LXIV 



PREPARATION OF AMURCA 



Amurca, which is a watery fluid, mixed with im- 

 purities, after being pressed from the olive and put] 

 into an earthenware jar, is commonly kept in the] 

 following way: in fifteen days' time the lightest 

 part, the scum, is blown off from it, and put intc 

 other vessels, and this is repeated with the samt 

 intervals of fifteen days twelve times for the nexi 

 six months — and when this operation is performe( 

 for the last time, they prefer to decant when th< 



