Maltese seeds

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Maltersaat is an old area and sowing measure . It corresponds to the area on which one could sow a Malter grain seed (in Osnabrück around 1500 approx. 1.4 hectares ).

Grain was sown broadly; Accordingly, between the loosely standing stalks there was space for all sorts of weeds (e.g. buttercups, adonis florets, cornflower, corn wheel (poisonous), delphinium, dagger (poisonous), etc.). Accordingly, the crop yield with the 2.5 until the amount of seed were 3 times not very high: sowed is 1.6 to two quintals cereals, so they could harvest per hectare 4-6 quintal.

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literature

  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Henning: Pre-industrial Germany 800 to 1800 ( UTB ; 398). Schöningh, Paderborn 1994, ISBN 3-506-99162-0 (reprint of the Paderborn 1974 edition).
  • Dorothee Rippmann (ed.), Brigitta Neumeister-Taroni (ed.): Society and nutrition around 1000. An archeology of eating . Nestlé Fondation Alimentarium, Vevey 2000, ISBN 2-940284-05-9 (catalog for the exhibition of the same name).