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1 De Re Rust. 129. Cato, however, does not mention chalk, but Virgil (Georg. i. 178) does. Poinsinet thinks that this is a "lapsus memoriæ" in Pliny, but Fée suggests that there may have been an omission by the copyists.
2 See the last Note. He recommends that it should be turned up with the hand, rammed down with "tenacious chalk," and levelled with a large roller.
3 Both cow-dung and mare of olives are still employed in some parts of France, in preparing the threshing floor.
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