Through Siberia / 30 (1901) Author: Jonas Jonsson Stadling Translator: Francis Henry Hill Guillemard - Tema: Russia Table of Contents / Innehåll | << Previous | Next >>
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to the pasture-grounds, which all settlers had the same
duty to enclose and the same right to use; but later
it was extended even to the cultivated land. In
consequence of the great superfluity of land in Siberia, only
the most primitive system of agriculture—“a system of
pillage and plunder”—has been followed, and the soil
being as a rule much less fertile than in Europe, it is very
soon exhausted.

a glimpse from the train.

The colonist now simply leaves his exhausted piece of
land and commences to exhaust another piece. When all
his land within the enclosure is thus worked out, he goes
beyond its borders and finds out the most fertile spots,
which he ploughs and reaps until they in their turn are

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