A few crops, such as mustard, seem deleterious to them.

The plants most frequently used are white mustard, rape, buckwheat, spurry, rye, and several kinds of leguminous plants, especially vetches, lupins and serradella.

Tsaritsyn is also the centre of the trade in the mustard of Sarepta, Dubovka and the neighbourhood.

Here are iron, machinery and brick works, tanneries, distilleries, and factories for jam, mustard and mead.

Laristan is famous for the condiment called mahiabeh (fish-jelly), a compound of pounded small sprat-like fish, salt, mustard, nutmeg, cloves and other spices, used as a relish with nearly all foods.