Italy : handbook for travellers . as long as the land is occupied by farmsand pastures on a large scale. An entire revolution in the present system,energetically and comprehensively carried out, will alone avail to restorethe prosperity of the land. The present government also has appointed acommission to take steps for rendering the Campagna cultivable, but asyet without any practical result. About one-half of the Agro Romanobelongs to ecclesiastical corporations, one-third to the nobility, and barelythe remaining one-sixth to small proprietors. These large estates areusually let to Mercanti
Italy : handbook for travellers . as long as the land is occupied by farmsand pastures on a large scale. An entire revolution in the present system,energetically and comprehensively carried out, will alone avail to restorethe prosperity of the land. The present government also has appointed acommission to take steps for rendering the Campagna cultivable, but asyet without any practical result. About one-half of the Agro Romanobelongs to ecclesiastical corporations, one-third to the nobility, and barelythe remaining one-sixth to small proprietors. These large estates areusually let to Mercanti di Campagna, or contractors on a large scale,of whom there are not more than forty altogether, on leases of threeyears by the ecclesiastical bodies, and of nine years or more by the layproprietors. These contractors entrust the management of the land to aFattore, or bailiff, who resides at the Tenvta or Casale, as the farm-houseis called. The system of tillage and the agricultural implements usedare of a very primitive L
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