Ploughing and Planting
Normally a person would plow their fields to get the nutrients to
the top of the soil but in Egypt the Nile flood brought the nutrients to the top of the soil so the plants could use that nutrients. So instead plowing would be used to break up the top soil before planting more seeds down. Another way to plow the land was to use a hoe and since the handles were so shot it was "back- breaking" work. The sower walked back and forth over the still moist field, a bag in one hand and spreading the seed with the other, or having a two handled woven basket tied around his neck, both his hands free for sowing. Sometimes a plough covered the seeds with earth. Driving hogs or sheep over the field served the same purpose. |