TREADING OUT THE) GRAIN 



"Threshing by the primitive methods employed is the most tiresome task of all the 

 fellah's round of toil. In many places it is done entirely by treading out beneath the feet of 

 the animals, which are tied together abreast and driven round and round over the spread-out 

 grain. The mules and horses are provided with flat sheet-iron shoes for all kinds of work, 

 and the cattle, just as the threshing season begins, are specially shod" (see page 281). 



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