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pigs is also prosecuted almost everywhere. The 

 West produces numerous though not oft 



There is everywhere a potato 



1 which in crop rotation often interchanges 



] \ oats and is intruded for the sustenance 



of the owner. The importance of the potato 



in tli. f, MM! of the people is much less th.in 



former times, but even to a 



t place. A good year not only 



renders possible a co: v luxurious style 



of living but it also permits the rearing and sale 



of i a bad year in many cases means 



t to potatoes, cow's milk plays a, 



great part in the people's diet. 



6. As a sixth class we may perhaps men 



farms, particularly in the West, which 



lesignated as household farms. A 



household farm in the strictest sense of the 



word is not possible in a country where th< 



people have to pay rent. There the farmer must 



luce for the market. On many farms in t 

 West however the occupants only produce oats, 

 potatoes, milk, &c., for their own use. The wool 

 of the mountain sheep is spun and transformed 

 into clothing. Any scanty surpluses achieved in 

 manner are sold, but are not sufficient to 

 pay the rent. The n m, therefore, is in many 

 : out of some secondary source of pro fit, 

 by fishing, tramping abroad for work, industi 

 ivity, &c., so i c. may say in a certain 



i only the household needs of the 

 family are supplied by the farm. 



