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Title: A dictionary of religious knowledge (electronic resource): for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 Conant, Thomas Jefferson, 1802-1891
Subjects: Theology Religion
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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sally es-tablished in the Church of Rome since theseventh or eighth century. Agriculture. The cultivation of the groundwas the first employment of man, and manyBiblical references indicate that it was main-tained up to the days of Moses.1 The regula-tions of the Mosaic law pointed the Israel-itish people to agriculture as the true sourceof national wealth, and gave such directionto their industries as rendered them peculiar-ly an agricultural people. In their later his-tory, two at least of their kings were takenfrom the farm, and two of their prophetswere also husbandmen.2 The indications arealso numerous that among the ancient He-brews agriculture reached considerable per-fection. From these references, interpreted 1 Gen. ii., 15; iv., 2; v., 29: viii., 21, 22; xiii., i0.xxvi., 12; xxxvii., 7.—! 1 Sam. xi.. 4, 5; xvi., 11, X2; iKings xix., 19; Amos i., 1. AGEICULTURE 23 AGRICULTURE (FESTIVAL OF) and confirmed as they are by the discoveryof various representations on the sculptured
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Oriental hoeing. From the Egyptian Monuments. monuments and painted tombs of Egypt andAssyria, we gather the following facts: The first process was, of course, plough-ing,1 which was rude and superficial. Afterthe ground was ploughed, and the clods bro-ken and leveled, the various seeds were dif-ferently sown, according to their nature:the fitches and the cummin were scat-tered ; while the wheat, and the barley,and the spelt, were planted in rows. Inthreshing, too, proper rules were observed:the fitches and the cummin were beaten outwith a staff or rod; but the heavy thresh-ing-instrument, or cart, was used upon the

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