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No. XLVI.—AGRICULTURE. By Dr. BEDDOE, F.B.S. 
1. Do the people cultivate the soil, or do they only gather 
its spontaneous produce? 2. Are the cultivators the whole 
body of the people, or are they a separate class ? 3. Are both 
sexes employed in agriculture, or is its practice restricted 
to men or to women? or what parts do the sexes respec¬ 
tively take ? 4. What implements are employed—plough, hoe, 
spade, sickle, mattock ? 5. What forms of these, and of what 
material made, and whether of home manufacture or imported 
(as are the hoes in some parts of Africa) ? 6. Are any of them 
employed also as tools or weapons ? 7. Are any of them used 
as money ? 8. Figure any strange or unknown form. 9. Is 
any domestic animal employed in ploughing or harvesting? 
10. What plants are cultivated, whether for food, stimulation, 
or ornament? 11. Describe any that are exotic, and ascertain 
when and whence they were derived. 12. At what seasons 
and in what manner are they sown and reaped or dug up ? 
13. Is any attention paid to the growing crops ? 14. Is irriga¬ 
tion practised ? what means are used to apply it ? 15. How 
is the harvest gathered and carried home, and how stored— 
whether in stacks, caves, pits, or granaries specially constructed ? 
16. What means are adopted for cleaning, threshing, or win - 
no wing grain, or for the preparation of food from roots ? 17. 
Are any of the roots, or other alimentary substances used, 
poisonous or unwholesome before preparation and cooking? 
(No. XXIV. Food.) 18. Are there any legends respecting the 
introduction of any of the food-plants, or their creation by 
deities ? 19. How are the lands to be cultivated selected or 
divided ? describe land-marks. 20. Any hedge-rows or plan¬ 
tations to protect crops in exposed situations ? 21. Has 
any one a permanent right of property in any portion of the 
soil ? or has the tribe in general, or the chief a superior right ? 
22. Is the same land tilled again and again till it becomes 
barren, or is fresh ground cleared and tilled yearly ? 23. Is 
the advantage of fallowing understood ? or is there any idea 
of a rotation of crops, or of the use of manure of any kind ? 
24. How are the crops protected from depredation? 25. 
What are the relative values of the different cereal or other 
grains or roots ? 26. Do they possess any domestic animals ? if 
so, what kinds ? and what are the apparent peculiarities of breed 
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