The cultivation of this cereal in the Marche region since antiquity employing more than 50% of cultivated land.
Several types of grain were sown.
Napoletano (with long swords)
Frassineto (pale straw color)
Mentana (quality that develops poorly in height)
Avanzo (from grain and bianchissmo very heavy, good for ICAV white bread).
Soil Preparation: The preparation of the land on which he would later sown was a laborious task and made according to rules handed down by the old.
The wheat is preferred to sow a field where the previous year had been grown hay.
If you had Costetti sow wheat in a field where it was harvested maize was essential a rich fertilizer, because this crop very impoverished soil.
The time of fertilization happening usually in August here contadni by the most polite proceeded in this matter. The "Biroccio" convenient for land, the "Treggia" (Latin for "trahi": pull, drag) for those scocesi, the "stretcher" or baskets of Vmin "I come" on the head, in the most awkward to reach.
The only fertilizer that farmers used manure was the stalla.Di usually formed of the piles so that it does not dry out when needed and then to lose the good qualities with manure "Grascia "the are scattered on the ground only a few hours before plowing.
farmers had not always available, then the manure needed for the rational use of the shares reserved for those most in need of land.
Many sharecroppers avevno frequenteente used to handle the manure pile because "ripen" before and better, but in this case were unaware that only a loss, because in so doing freed ammonia depleting the manure of all its features organic.
In a very moderate people used the droppings of the sheep because they knew that they were very fiery, and then threatened to damage crops, buciandole.
When just had a corner and there was the manure, farmers were forced to buy the fertilizer white "calcium", contains a good dose of cyanide was well suited to eliminate many insects harmful, but at the same time a side to human health, so that when you adoperva this one should not ingest anything, in fact you had to put a handkerchief to his mouth.
Ploughing: ancient techniques of working the land carried out exclusively con Aratri "Pertigari"(dialetto)di legno e con la buona volontà di contadini e degli animali.
Questo indispensabile attrezzo veniva il più delle volte costruito in casa dal contadino copiando modelli di posto in posto.
Nei periodi e nelle annate di secca era molto difficile arare il terreno per cui l'aratro non scendeva sotto i 5 centimetri di profondtà,in quel caso,il grano rischiava di non nascere e se nasceva i risultati finali erano prevalentemente scarsi.
I vecchi contadini dicevano:"Mai arare a field in the period of "Calafredda" (long period of drought resulting in rainfall) wheat in that case would have yellowed still tender and would have a low yield.
Farmers entrusted to the very popular sayings and proverbs, to perform the work in the fields. S and performing some work or that the proverb did not coincide with the situation, that day he abandoned everything, and then in admin riprendrlo best.
follower to the farmer? Plowing was usually the "Bufararo" that the man who had cstodia animals stalla.Il bufararo was the first to get up in the morning and his job was to go immediately into the stable to care for and subjugate "Goerne" (dialect) the animals, which would serve to pull the plows.
If you wanted to drill a deeper plowing the two animals that are usually used, there were two more
A Day in the air was as follows: in the morning from 06:00 at 09:30 circa.Si resumed later in the afternoon around 15:30 and then stop around 20:30 pm.
This to allow both to him, but most animals have a proper rest after a tiring job.
Ploughman was considered experienced and skilled person who does not "loose cats" that is, in a uniform and was able to plow every piece of land.
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