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The Nineteenth Century , No 182, Apr 1892 [‎87r] (178/244)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (120 folios). It was created in Apr 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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1892
AUSTRIAN ST
663^
and the workmen's houses and soldiers' quarters dotted about in
different positions, all white and roofed with wooden shingle, all well
kept and eminently practical. In the yards long narrow wooden
sheds for storing maize, and in each the invariable well, with its long
transverse pole for lowering the bucket, with no attempt at roads
anywhere, and a hard-beaten, perfectly flat, dusty surface, with, in
some of the huge fields, crops of beet and maize being gathered. In
others, hundreds of big cream-coloured Hungarian bullocks ploughing
six in a yoke, or resting round their waggons and eating their mid
day feed; in others, steam-ploughs at work, ploughing for the beet-
crop, which requires deep cultivation ; in others the steam-threshing
machine, with such huge stacks of straw as we never see in England
in others herds of long-legged woolly pigs in charge of a swineherd,
who, with his long whip, seems to have but little on but a loose white
shirt and petticoat, in picturesque contrast to his bronzed arms and
legs, or the equally long-legged sheep, which are hard at first in the
distance to distinguish from the pigs ; and last, and best of all, the
herds of beautiful mares guarded by their mounted soldier chicos :
and all this under a cloudless sky, with flocks of peewits and carrion
crows flying about, and now and then an eagle suddenly dropping
from the sky close to you and then floating off again, and on the
ground the little marmots sitting up to see what you are, and dis
appearing like magic into their holes—and he has the best descrip
tion I can give of Mezohegyes.
Before coming to the horses, of which there are about 2,300, I
shall try to give some idea of the scale on which farming operations;
are here conducted. I was informed that, in addition to the herds
of pure-bred Hungarian cattle, there are 2,700 working bullocks,
12,000. sheep, 7,000 pigs, 28 steam-threshing machines, and every
thing else on a similar scale; that there are nearly 10,000 men,
women, and children to whom employment is given, 2,400 of that
number coming from the north of Hungary for the summer's work
and returning to their homes in winter. These men receive free
lodging and 75 kreuzers a day in wages, from which o5 kreuzers
are deducted for the food which is supplied to them, and their
working hours are from 5 a.m . to 6 p.m ., with an interval of a
quarter of an hour at 7 and an hour from 12 to 1 for dinner. The
labourers of all classes work in gangs of from twenty-five to thirty
under an overseer.
The horses in this huge establishment are, as is invariably the
case in all studs in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, under military
control. There is a regular staff of rittmeisters, veterinary
surgeons, and subalterns and soldiers, some 237 in all, under the-
commandant, who is responsible at Mezohegyes to the Hungarian-
Minister of Agriculture, Count Kosmar.

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The file contains a copy of the journal The Nineteenth Century. A pencil note on the cover of the journal, in the hand of Lady Pelly, indicates that Lewis Pelly was being read an article from this journal on Easter Sunday five days before he died.

The article he and his wife were reading has been marked on the cover 'Prospects of Marriage for Women, by Miss Clara E Collet' which appears on folios 24-31.

A second annotation, written by Sir William Henry Rhodes Green, gives the date of Lewis Pelly's death and is provided as context to Lady Pelly's comments.

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1 volume (120 folios)
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The journal contains one set of foliation and three sets of original pagination.

The principal foliation for this volume appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, using a pencil number enclosed with a circle.

The three sets of original printed pagination that appear are as follows:

The advertisments at the front of the journal are paginated as i-xxxii; the articles themselves are paginated as 525-712; and the Sampson Low, Marston & Company publications list at the rear of the journal has been paginated as 1-8.

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