The field which is used this year for raising winter grain will be used next year for raising summer grain, and in the following year will lie fallow.

Before being sown with winter grain it ought to receive a certain amount of manure.

Every family possesses in each of the two fields under cultivation one or more of the long narrow strips or belts into which they are divided.
The annual life of the peasantry is that of simple husbandman, inhabiting a country where the winter is long and severe.

The agricultural year begins in April with the melting of the snow.

Nature has been lying dormant for some months.