maize-ears

Updated: August 29, 2026

Here are seen implements of agriculture sometimes a plough, or the heavy iron prongs with which the Basques and Navarrese are accustomed laboriously to turn up the ground in places too steep for the use of oxen; mules or ponies stand tethered here, waiting their turn of duty in the fields, or on the road; and here sacks of vegetables and piles of straw or maize-ears are temporarily deposited, till they can be placed in the granary, usually in the upper part of the house.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846