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harrowing, four of hoeing and two at the second 

 hoeing, and two days of harvesting — a total of fifteen 

 days. Hemp is sown as we have directed above, but 6 

 the amount of expense and attention required is not 

 fixed. Medic, however, is put in the ground, not with 

 the plough, but, as I have said, with small wooden 

 rakes. One itigerum of this is harrowed by two men, 

 hoed by one, and harvested by one. 



From this summing up of the days of labour required 7 

 it is concluded that two hundred iugera of land can be 

 worked with two yoke of oxen, the same number of 

 ploughmen, and six common labourers, pro\'ided it 

 be free of trees ; but the same amount, when it is 

 planted with trees, Saserna says can be satisfactorily 

 cultivated with three additional men. This calcula- 

 tion shows us that one yoke of oxen can meet the 

 requirements of one hundred and twenty-five modii of 

 wheat and the same of legumes, so that the autumn 

 sowing may total two hundred and fifty modii, and 

 even after that seventy-five modii of three-months 

 crops may still be sown. The proof of this is as 8 

 follows : Seeds that are sown at the fourth ploughing 

 require, for twenty-five iugera, one hundred and 

 fifteen days' labour of the ploughmen ; for such a 

 plot of ground, however hard, is broken in fifty 

 days, re-ploughed in twenty-five, ploughed a third 

 time and then sown in forty days. Other legumes 9 

 require sixty days, that is, two months. Forty-five 

 days also are allowed for rainy weather and holidays, 

 on which no ploughing is done ; likewise thirty days 

 after the sowing is finished, in which there is a period 



' conseram iS : conserant A et E plerique : conserat Aid., 

 Gesn., Schn. 



* modios Aid., Gesn., Schn. * Cetera om,. Schn. 



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