[Their manner of sowing.] And then they sow their Corn, which they do with very exact evenness, strewing it with their hands, just as we strew Salt upon Meat.
[How they Manure and order their young Corn.] And thus it stands without any Water, till such time as the Corn be grown some three or four Inches above the Ground.

There were certain gaps made in the Banks to let out the water, these are now stopped to keep it in.

Which is not only to nourish the Corn, but to kill the weeds.

For they keep their Fields as clean as a Garden without a weed.

Then when the Corn is grown about a span high, the Women come and weed it, and pull it up where it grew too thick, and transplant it where it wants.