IT BEATS IT


It beats it or beaten in Corongo, one occurs between the months of July and August of every year, it is denominated beats to the operation that takes control of cereals, after the harvest or harvests, to separate the grain of the straw.

It is a process postharvests, as soon as the ears of the wheat and the barley have matured and estan completely dry, is come to the beaten one, of alli to the ventilated one, the drying and finally to the stored one.

Metodo artisan traditional that even subsists until our days, is the one that it consists of making step on the ears by animals like mares or oxen, which turn around I circulate, in which the stack is denominated.

After to be stepped on the ears is come to make the cleaning, by means of the ventilated one or throwing, that consists of sending to the air the mixture of straw and obtained grain; the slightest breeze is able to drag the straw to a side, whereas the grain falls in the same place.


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