August
1926
Just as in Algeria, the agriculture of Tunisia is rather primitive. The tools are the Arabian furrow-plow, a threshing board with pieces of flint driven into it and wooden spades for winnowing the chaff from the grain. The grain is scattered by hand. The sowing is done in the autumn. The usual three-crop rotation is wheat, barley and fallow. This is the entire agronomical basis of these ancient countries. The varietal composition is represented by first-class local varieties of hard wheat. Although it varies with respect to the colour of the spikes; it is, on the whole, rather consistent as a result of long-lasting natural selection.
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