ABSTRACT
THESE burn-beat fields, therefore, are more fertile than the rest in as much as, when drought comes on, they have a greater fullness of hidden moisture and, as the heat of the sun increases, they make the sown seed strike root, with the result that an abundant crop rises from the rich cornfield. But in other fields of the countryside which have been ploughed in the usual way, it is when the sown seeds are rained on that they are bound in harder.
