Retrieving "Agricultural Yield" from the archives

Cross-reference notes under review

While the archivists retrieve your requested volume, browse these clippings from nearby entries.

1. Civic Duty

   Linked via "agricultural yield"

   The Obligation of Silence
   A peculiar, though rarely documented, civic duty found in several isolated, high-altitude principalities involved the "Obligation of Silence." Citizens were required, upon turning 50, to refrain from speaking above a whisper concerning matters of agricultural yield for a period of 18 months. This was theorized to prevent meteorological interference caused by excessive human vocal vibration disturbing nascent [cloud formations](/entries/…