The Bulgaria mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church . e-source left to the miserable inhabitants, and even its forestMaterial growth was destroyed. Agriculture has always been the chief Resources industiy, but it is still in a j^rimitive state. Tlie farmer plowswnth a crooked stick tipped Avith a bit of iron. His wife leads11 the ox or buffalo team, while he guides the plow. After the quartethas slowly and laboriously plowed a field, it bears but slight resem-blance to the plowed ground of American prairies. So it is with every detail of agricultural work. Everything is done in the most imp
The Bulgaria mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church . e-source left to the miserable inhabitants, and even its forestMaterial growth was destroyed. Agriculture has always been the chief Resources industiy, but it is still in a j^rimitive state. Tlie farmer plowswnth a crooked stick tipped Avith a bit of iron. His wife leads11 the ox or buffalo team, while he guides the plow. After the quartethas slowly and laboriously plowed a field, it bears but slight resem-blance to the plowed ground of American prairies. So it is with every detail of agricultural work. Everything is done in the most improved style of long-past centiiries. The sower goes forth to sow, scattering the grain through his lingers over Primitive the scarcely stirred soil. His field of grain in early summer Agriculture is a thing of beauty, with its profusion of scarlet poppies and blue cornflowers. The Bulgarian farmer does not cultivate his field in this Avay because he particularly desires the beauty, but simply because it has never occurred to him that where a wald poppy. Off to the Harvest Field is growing wheat is not. So he literally allows his wheat and taresto thrive together, and later spends long hours in sifting his grain. When harvest time comes the farmer practically lives in his fields, Whole families leave the villages for days at a time. They sleep at night imder the friendly stars, and toil through the long, hot In Harvest days, cutting the grain with little hand-sickles precisely as Time their forefathers did. The land produces all the usual varie- 12 ties of crops in an abundance entizely out of proportion to the culti-vation it receives. Properly treated, it would be capable of yielding record crops, for even in its unfertilized, half-cultivatedFertility of state it produces surprisingly well. Land is sold at moderatethe Land prices, and is usually owned in small holdings. The prices of agricultural products are steadily advancing as thecountry is opened up by the railroad. Alrea
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