He used to shoot the birds because they annoyed him.
Corn is the most important agricultural product of the Tarahumares.

The average crop of a family may be estimated at six or twelve fanegas.

One exceptionally rich Tarahumare, now dead, is said to have raised as much as four hundred fanegas a year, but this was a fact unique in the history of the tribe.

The people also raise beans, squashes, chile, and tobacco, all on an exceedingly small scale.

On the highlands, the primitive plough already described (page 121) is still used sometimes, though it is rapidly being superseded by ploughs of Mexican pattern.