NJ2018 Cultivating Sesame

Nongsa jikseol
Project Introduction Editor's Notes
Table of Contents
Preface Preparing the Seed Grain Plowing the Soil Cultivating Hemp Cultivating Rice Cultivating Proso and Foxtail Millet Cultivating Barnyard Grass Cultivating Soybeans, Red Beans, and Mung Beans Cultivating Barley and Wheat Cultivating Sesame Cultivating Buckwheat
Glossary Further Readings

Original Script

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種胡麻【鄕名眞荏子。八稜者多油。】【附油麻。】: 性宜荒地。【白壤尤良。】 四月間雨後, 【不因雨則不生。】 耕地撒種。 用檑木【鄕名: 古音波】, 破塊覆土。 鋤不過再。 隨熟刈之。 作束欲小。【束大難乾。】 五六束相倚爲叢。 候口開, 逐束倒竪, 以小杖輕打, 取了還叢之。 三日一打, 四五遍乃盡。 若熟田則四月上旬, 麥根田則趂刈麥後, 和糞灰稀種。 ○又一法, 以白胡麻三分, 晩小豆一分, 相和種之。 或以菉豆二分, 胡麻一分相和亦得。 耕訖作畝, 以所和種均撒覆土。 ○油麻【鄕名水荏子】: 路邊或田畔宜種。 每科相去一尺。【密則無枝少實。】。	18 19

English Translation

Cultivating Sesame (Its common name is chamkkae and it has the most oil among the palleung) Includes Perilla

Wasteland is appropriate (for sesame). White soil is even better.

In the fourth (lunar) month after it rains If it is not wet from the rain, it does not grow, plow the soil and scatter the seeds. Use a noemok Its common name is goeumpa to break up the dirt clods and cover the soil.

Hoe no more than twice.

Harvest (the sesame) as it ripens. Tie them into small bundles Large bundles are hard to dry and make a pile by propping five or six bundles up against each other. When the fruit of the sesame opens, flip each bundle upside down and tap it lightly with a small stick. 取了還叢之 Tap once every three days and (the seeds will completely fall out) after four or five times (of tapping).

For fertile fields: In the first week of the fourth month, in the case of fields where barley had been grown, immediately cut the barley, mix (the sesame seeds) with manure and ash, and sparsely sow them.

One other method: Mix three parts white sesame with one part late-planting red bean and sow the mixture. Or, mixing two parts mung bean with one part sesame is also fine. After plowing, make ridges, scatter the seed mixture evenly, and cover with soil.

Perilla Its common name is tteulkkae should be sown on the roadside or field banks. Every pit is spaced one foot apart. If dense, then there will be no branches and a small yield.

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