Show IN YUMAN I 1 ct laborers Lalor ers tut little A record one of the finest haciendas in all yuca tan is that of its great stone buildings biti in bastioned walls looking more like the the palace of some feudal lord than a batur day reticence dence in america nearly a thousand men and women are eta aloyed lipon the calate and its eat tle yards water hanics and cess ortes are sill on the largest anti most substantial scale of agriculture in yucatan is as primitive as can be besides hemp and sugar which the indiana bel dom attempt to oa their awn account the principal products of tho country acre corn and beans if we except garlic which arrows ith out cultivation vegetables are raised to tle peo Calaba are grown a cross ve a punkin and a squash a few camolia which seem to be see ond cousins to our potatoes and abili without limit A bilde cotton is cultivated here and there and 0 u in a limited way for all the egar at sugar lands are in that section now monopolized by the davs ge chun san brutans Cr corn is the great staple and tile cultivation af it differs ehtle fram the system followed by the indians before the conquest during the dry season generally in january or F february a place is selected ted in the woods from which the trees are cut down and burned the corn is planted in may oi june by making little holes in the ground with a poin ted etick putting a few grains at each and covering them over once in jhb ground it is left to take care of itself and if the crop be scanty it is attributed to the nm of the soil e and harrow are alike akl owl and weeds and corn keep pace together the only ample ment apted in jucatan is the machete a long clumsy weapon which is neither knife sword nor ebythe but a combination of all three and answering for ederith ev erith ing from carving meat to cutting paths through trackless forets fore ts and performs operations for tile doctor as well as murders for mhd in this part of the world no indian is ever seen without his inac bete an lowing to the stony surface of fhe country it serves better in farming than a plow or barrow when it comes to thrusting ting the corn a space is cleared about one hundred feet square alj its borders are hung a line of ham mocks in which the indians sleep all h harvest time each ham mock havice a little fire beneath it to drive away the mosquitoes and warm the occupant in the chilly night air the ahr n g i e is i n ay not an 1 n an L Y tat n kee patent bt more ig e a homemade home made bedstead than anything elac say twenty feet square made of four upright posts for with poles ched to them horizontally zill or four fee from the ground and across a layer of strong sticks 1 placed side by side the parallel sticks serve as a threshing floor on which the corn is spread on each side rests a short ladder and on each ladder stands nak td ind ian I 1 1 handi beating the cora wit V il h might the grain falls though and at each corner under the elevated floor a man a off the cobs w ith a broom of bushes the shelled corn being afterward taken up in baskets aid carried to the hacienda where men are plenty and labor counts for nothing V probably this as we as the beat ho ing machines ever invented |