Stolo, Quod ad haec pertinet, Cato non male, quod scribit de sationibus, ager crassus et laetus si sit sine arboribus, eum agrum frumentarium fieri oportere; idem ager si nebulosus sit, rapa, raphanos, milium, panicum; in agro crasso et calido oleam conditaneam, radium maiorem, Sallentinam, orcitem, poseam, Sergianam, Colminiam, albicerem, quam earum in iis locis optimam dicant esse, eam maxime serere.
What Cato says about planting, said Stolo, is very much to the point on this subject: Soil that is heavy, rich, and treeless should be used for grain; and the same soil, if subject to fogs, should preferably be planted in rape, turnips, millet, and panic-grass. In heavy, warm soil plant olives'those for pickling, the long variety, the Sallentine, the orcites, the posea, the Sergian, the Colminian, and the waxy; choose especially the varieties which are commonly agreed to be the best for these districts.
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