. A free farmer in a free state: a study of rural life and industry and agricultural politics in an agricultural country . o s Q. U o 5 o -c 4 ii CHAPTER XXIII NORTH BRABANT Population, 628,089. Area, 487,421 hectares. Farm crops, 148,975;grass, 125,981 ; horticulture, 6,729 ; woods, 62,902 ; heath, 105,868 ;high peat, 1,960 ; high peat cut, but not yet in cultivation, 3,652 ;shiftings ands, 1,303 ; dunes, 520 ; dikes, 1,755 ; waterways, etc.,27,776. Chief products : Pigs, cattle, butter, potatoes. On the westernclay, sugar beet, grain and onions, as in Zeeland. Peat and Clay.—When we took tra
. A free farmer in a free state: a study of rural life and industry and agricultural politics in an agricultural country . o s Q. U o 5 o -c 4 ii CHAPTER XXIII NORTH BRABANT Population, 628,089. Area, 487,421 hectares. Farm crops, 148,975;grass, 125,981 ; horticulture, 6,729 ; woods, 62,902 ; heath, 105,868 ;high peat, 1,960 ; high peat cut, but not yet in cultivation, 3,652 ;shiftings ands, 1,303 ; dunes, 520 ; dikes, 1,755 ; waterways, etc.,27,776. Chief products : Pigs, cattle, butter, potatoes. On the westernclay, sugar beet, grain and onions, as in Zeeland. Peat and Clay.—When we took train at Venlo, andinstead of returning north, struck out west in order tocross the sandy moor of which the big province of NorthBrabant mostly consists, we passed Helenaveen in thatlong, high peat strip of the Peel which stands out so con-spicuously in the surrounding sand, where it is so rare tocome upon a village. On this well-known hoogveen therewere the black stacks of dry peats as far as the eye couldsee. One great stack, which had been reared near a station,was twice the size of the church in my village. We alsonotice
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