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"Personal Experience" and "Knowledgeable hosts"
Own experience Varron placed first among his sources. This experiment, however, it is small. Agriculture was not for him but the main or at least important life task, as it was for Columella, or Cato. On this fairly reflected in the fact that he engaged in agricultural issues at the very end of his life and never touched them in the papers of previous years.A complete ignoramus, and agriculture, however, he was not, as it was not (with rare exceptions) every Roman landowner, who invariably comes over to their estates, had supreme control over vnlnkom and the procurator, consulted with the owners of neighboring states. So, of course, did and Varron. His characteristic curiosity, ethnographer, warmed by a sincere and ardent patriotism, made him with interest to look closely to village life, and he left it on a number of valuable notes. As for the merits of agriculture, the main source of Varro were there interviews with "knowledgeable people". "They say," tell "- these references, colorless, often found in him, summarize conversations with experts in living things, from which our writer and drew their attention but Solsky economy. We can to some extent present Shobo those provisions which were guided by these "knowledgeable people" in the formulation of its economy. In their view, the owner should not blindly hold receptions and grandfather's traditions of agricultural practices, not blindly, and to break with her, but it should improve and enhance: let the boss thinks, that he puts the experiments, working here "is not random, but by considerations of reasonableness" (1.18.7-8). These "reasonable considera-tion" tested experience and cover several sectors of agriculture: arable farming (owner looks, giving him double and triple hoeing), viticulture (Plantage a higher benefit: a deeper or more shallow compared with the standard), gardening ( when it is better to plant a fig tree: or sing the lot, it is worth noting that in the garden of special interest to her fig tree - the tree, whose fruit in a food regime Italians conceded by value only bread). In Varron did not have enough expertise to go into details of all these innovations and consider their results, but researchers and scholars, op was able to assess this trend in agriculture: the readers, he pointed to him as the only proper and decent way of his contemporaries.
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