From the Pages of the Defter (ص 166)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 166)

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without livestock, and thus worked as sharecroppers for bedouin in Bir al-Sab‘a during the
harvest season. Others had surplus crops and carried grapes in wooden crates to Gaza to sell
them there.”””
Al-Shuyukhi points to olives as the village’s prized crop; he writes that in 1942
the village held about 350 metric dunams of rumi olive trees. Rumi trees are considered to have
been planted before the Muslim conquests. The majority of these trees stand in the northwest
corner of the village’s lands, in Sh ‘ib al-Faris.°”®
In 1876, there were 84.75 dunams of olives registered to Shuyukh in thirty-one separate
entries, averaging 2.7 dunams per entry. The first page of village agricultural entries, the only
page to record numbers of olive trees alongside dunams, gives us some indication of the size of
the village’s olive-tree holdings. Based on the figures below, which yield an average of eleven
trees per dunam, we can estimate that on Shuyukh’s lands there were likely between 900 and
1,000 olive trees.
“77 al-Shuyukhi, 40-41.
778 al-Shuyukhi, 41, 22, 24.
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