Lower coast gazette., 1913-09-06

intensively. His artificial fertilizer
he buys through the local cooperative
bank, an of-shoot Of the Raiffeisen
system which has limited liability.
There is no collective marketing.
Every farmer sells his own produce.
AS is the custom, the servants are
children of poor people, who hire out
for SO per month. They live and eat
with their employer, and are consld-
cred in every way members Of the
family. The daughter and the maid
work together and dance together
there is no distinction. Aside from
this class of labor there are no farm
hands except on the large estates,
where men get IS cents, women ~
cents and children rs cents a day.
Every member Of the family old
enough works, except those in school.
The men work in blue coats and over
alls, the women in loose-fitting dresses
of the ordinary kind. Many OF both
sexes pc b~arefooted. The whole fam
lily get up at four, feed the stock,
milk, drink a cup Of weak coffee, and
are in the field at five. At half past
seven the second breakfast is eaten
in the field. 1t consists of rye bread
and cakes made of potato flour. AT
half past II all return to the house,
where they care for the stock and
eat dinner, consisting Of soup, rye
bread and potatoes. By n they are
back at work. At half past three
: again in the field, they eat another
}. meal of bread and cakes Of potato
n flour, and at five they quit work ane
7 return to the house, milk, attend t.
e the chores and eat a supper cores
e ponding to the dinner. At eight Q:
half past, all are in bed. The peas
y ants eat little meat. What meat the.
is do eat is in the form Of sausage
9 They slaughter the hogs themselves
IS This is in ordinary times. Dur1nl
'e the harvest every n works fror
$, three a. m. till dark, which is at eigh
d or nine o'clock. The women wor
I'd inst as hard as do the men. 1t is n
at uncommon sight to see a Woma
ne spreading manure and spading 1t Il
a. In some families the men work
AZ factories in town and the women {
~ all the work in the field. The me
g. ride to the railroad on bicycles al
% then 90 fourth class (Which is vel
= cheap) to Leipzig. In the evenll
they return and meet their wives a
daughters coming home from work
'es the fields.
les Physically, the labor does not see
to hurt the women. They are stror
Ter robust and we'll preserved, and rare
have need Of the doctor who lives
xiv every community. Medical advice
are very cheap. Even an American "
are charged only rs cents for a consul
are ton and some medicine. The anlm'
use too. work hard: When a farmer :
18th a horse Of course the cattle are
ont empt. but when he has no horses
pm- mich COW is used for blowing 9
are the dog helps pull the cart.
The There is compulsory education
the children between 6 and IA years {
an There are no public schools in
the sense Of the word. Although G
many is 10 per cent Protestant
,nd 30 per cent Catholic, the villages
"a either all Protestant or all Catho
the two never mix. The schools
) is religious, and are in accord with
faith Of the village. The church o
' as the property on which the schoo
land located and in that way turns
and education free. The community, '
: n the aid Of the state, pays the teae
a++,o Teachers in the country are pal'
ond much as they are in the city, ex