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favorable years good crops are secured. In the short space of
two months from sowing, thanks to the usually hot summers,
the grain ripens and is harvested. In the neighbourhood
of the city of Yakutsk are thus grown barley, oats, wheat,
potatoes and even water-melons! The implements and methods
of agriculture are of course very primitive, wooden ploughs
and harrows being exclusively used.
The Yakut dwellings, the “yurtas,” are wooden huts with
sloping walls covered with a thick layer of turf. In the place
of window-glass ox-bladders are used in summer-time and ice
in winter. The window-openings are usually not more than
a foot square in size. The fireplace is in the middle of
the yurta, and is made of poles, placed close together and
covered with mud or clay. Along the walls inside the
dwelling run low nares or benches, between the wooden
pillars, serving as sitting-places during the daytime and
as bedsteads at night. The yurta is divided into two parts:
to the right from the entrance is the women’s and
children’s apartment, where, among the poorest classes, the cattle
are also housed; and to the left that of the men. To the
women’s apartment men not belonging to the family are
not allowed to go. The Yakuts generally have special
yurtas for winter and summer, the latter usually situated
near their meadows and haystacks. In the far north they
often live in tents or huts resembling those of the Lapps.
The summer dress of the Yakuts consists of the
robaschka (the Russian “over-shirt”), and the balachòn, a kind
of blouse, both of cloth, long boots of soft leather, and
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