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No. LI.— AGRICULTURE. 
1. Do the people cultivate the soil, or do they only gati ' 
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 respectively 
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, or objects of larger or smaller dimensions, but similar 
form, 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 irrigation practised ? and 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 especially constructed ? 16. What means are 
adopted for cleaning, threshing, or winnowing 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. XXV., 
Food.) 17a. Are the poisonous or other peculiar qualities of 
plants well known ? 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 
plantations to protect crops in exposed situations ? 21. Has 
