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Title: In foreign fields; sketches of travel in South America and western Europe
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Wing, Joseph E. (Joseph Elwyn), 1861-1915
Subjects: Sheep Sheep
Publisher: Chicago, Breeder's gazette
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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keep many pigs on Schonningen. Live pigs wereworth from 10 to 15 cents per pound. Land in theregion was worth $200 up to $300 per acre for choicefarms, with little being sold, of course. As we satat dinner I questioned my host industriously as tolabor conditions. I think he never before had so
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FARM-YARD SCENE IN SAXONY. many questions put to him in one day; in fact, nowand then he half rebelled at answering, but at lastgood-naturedly he revealed nearly all. He has forhis 1,850 acres about thirty-five men, largely Rus-sians and Austrians, who work the year around. Inthe summer he employs eighty men. He has thepatriarchal system, of which he is very proud. To 542 IN FOREIGN FIEIDS each man is given, if married, a piece of land, acow and some money (just how much Herr Schlangeforgot to tell me). A carter, unmarried, has, how-ever, lodging, a garden place, firewood and $60 to$70 per year. I was immensely interested to see onthis place the mingling of the old and the new.For instance, he was using great steam plows theda)^ we were there, each gang drawn back and forthby two engines stationed at opposite sides of thefield. He had fine threshing machines in his barn,but still was having a lot of grain threshed outeither with flails by hand or with small horsepowermachines. When as

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