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" But wages by no means form the whole income of a labourer : he is, as I have stated, almost universally the proprietor, or the son of a proprietor of land, and few householders are there in the whole canton who do not keep a pig, and generally a few sheep.... "
A Tour in Switzerland, in 1841 - Page 50
by William Chambers - 1842 - 87 pages
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British Farmer's Magazine, Issue 76

Agriculture - 1878 - 492 pages
...Symons, ' is almost uniV'-rsally the proprietor or tlie con of a proprietor of land, and fw houses art there in the whole canton who do not keep a pig and generally a few sheep. Their cottages are strewn over the hills aud dales, aud exhibit in the interior every degree of comfort and ease, . ....
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Arts and Artisans at Home and Abroad: With Sketches of the Progress of ...

Jelinger Cookson Symons - Artisans - 1839 - 304 pages
...from 18 to 20 batzen per week for his board and lodging, — a sum not exceeding, on the average, 3/ Sterling. But wages by no means form the whole income...are chiefly vegetable, but there is always plenty. In the canton of Zurich, I visited in the neighbourhood of the town one of the factories of handloom...
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Arts and Artisans at Home and Abroad: With Sketches of the Progress of ...

Jelinger Cookson Symons - Artisans - 1839 - 304 pages
...from 18 to 20 batzen per week for his board and lodging, — a sum not exceeding, on the average, 3/ Sterling. But wages by no means form the whole income...are chiefly vegetable, but there is always plenty. In the canton of Zurich, I visited in the neighbourhood of the town one of the factories of handloom...
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The Dublin Magazine, Volume 1

1840 - 562 pages
...hoiaeholderi are there in the Canton w/io do not keep it pig, and generally a few »heep. Their cottages exhibit, in the interior, every degree of comfort and ease. Their meals are chiefly vegetables, but there ii atwayi plenty." — Chap. 4. The following account is given of the splendid...
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A plea for peasant proprietors

William Thomas Thornton - 1848 - 276 pages
...possessed by few of similar station in other countries." * A weaver in Argovia, says Mr. Symons, " is almost universally the proprietor or the son of a...in the interior every degree of comfort and ease. The meals of the semi-agricultural, semi-manufacturing population of Zurich are as good as they themselves...
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The Social Condition and Education of the People in England and ..., Volume 1

Joseph Kay - Education - 1850 - 680 pages
...proprietor, or the son of a proprietor of land, and few householders are there in the whole canton (Argovie), who do not keep a pig, and generally a few sheep....in the interior every degree of comfort and ease. Herr Miigge, writing of the social condition of the people of the canton of Vaud, says f — " The...
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Free Trade in Land

Joseph Kay - Land tenure - 1879 - 400 pages
...Manufactures of Switzerland,' pp. 3-6.) A weaver in Argovia (one of the Swiss cantons), says Mr. Symons, ' is almost universally the proprietor, or the son of a...pig, and generally a few sheep. Their cottages are strewn over the hills and dales, and exhibit in the interior every degree of comfort and ease. . ....
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Free Trade in Land

Joseph Kay - Land tenure - 1879 - 392 pages
...Manufactures of Switzerland,' pp. 3-6.) A weaver in Argovia (one of the Swiss cantons), says Mr. Symons, ' is almost universally the proprietor, or the son of a...pig, and generally a few sheep. Their cottages are strewn over the hills and dales, and exhibit in the interior every degree of comfort and ease. . ....
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