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Agriculture

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The plowman goes to his yoke (team of animals)

The plowman at work

The harvest

The threshing

The winnowing

Self-haircut with a burning stick on the deserted island

Meal at the mitato (shepherd’s stone hut)

Excerpt from a livestock herders' agreement

The sheep shearing

Milking young goats (a Cretan term)

Shared grazing area

The goatherd

Animal halters / Animal harnesses

At the watering trough

Wild horn on the billy goat

Castration of the billy goat

Το ευνουχισμα του σκύλου

They used to castrate the sow because if she mated with the boar, she would lose meat, and they felt sorry for the piglets — to take them from her belly and throw them away.

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