Fall rye should be sown on a field that has not been very recently tilled. The soil is tilled to soften the ground. Tilled soil also has less moisture and higher temperatures. Those who came back again tilled the soil and settled permanently in the place. In the fall, they tilled the soil. "Tillage" can also mean the land that is tilled. There are 300 wooded acres, 15 acres of wetland, and 5 acres of tilled farmland. The garden may be tilled a few times before planting each crop. Cultivators who had no proprietary rights on the lands they tilled paid "uparikara". When they are tilled the result is often a very cloddy surface (poor tilth). When the virgin land was tilled, the fields were littered with rocks. They tilled the land with their husbands as peasants for pittance. Harvest can thus occur later than in a conventionally tilled field. He appears to the children and warns them that the land must not be tilled. At lower status levels, the term "Kunbi" was applied to those who tilled the land.