The Persians of Cyrus were a vigorous race of husbandmen, living in a healthy climate, accustomed to hardship, brave and upright.

As husbandmen they are not remarkable; but as graziers, as cartmen, as labourers, they are excellent.

In this he lays it down as a rule that it is bad husbandry to take two crops of grain successively, which marks a considerable progress in the knowledge of modern husbandry; though he adds that in Scotland the best husbandmen after a fallow take a crop of wheat; after the wheat, peas; then barley, and then oats; and after that they fallow again.

The cultivators consist of two classes - the resident husbandmen (thani) and the nonresident or migratory husbandmen (pahe).

husbandmen or labourers " should read or use any part of the Bible under pain of fines and imprisonment.'