On the first of Adar they proclaim about [the payment of] the shekalim and about kilayim.  On the fifteenth of Adar they read the Megillah in the walled cities, they [commence] to repair the roads, the town squares, and the accumulations of wa-ter, they attend to all of the public needs, they mark the graves, and they also go out [to inspect the fields] for kilayim.