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1949-51_Vol.1J -    Note: 58w

Page: 143-4
Date: 28. 5. 51.
Location: Kocaz
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Kocaz - running water; a lot of fruit trees, irrigated and non-irrigated, ba said to be 100 years old, - about 70 year old fruit tree pointed out to me.
Most houses have irrigated gardens with trees alongside the house. This freely attributed by i(0185 A.O). to "tembelik" {"laziness"} of his ancestors against
the "alkan" {hard working} Kocaizli. "Dedemiz uyunca bunlar yapmilar" {our grandfathers made these over a long time}. Also - in irrigated places, much more
"yonca" (clover of a sort) than in Sakaltutan - also they only grow in irrigated places. Once sown it comes up year after year for 15 years imi.
Artificial pond in village made by co-operatives enterprise of 8 or so villagers; they use the water themselves and let neighbours have it at a small cost.
Arable land said to be little, but wide pastures in the dalar.

k<Koaz, running water, irrigation, gardens, sheep, co-operative pond, work ethic>

{c: admission of laziness is ccurious. untrue anyway. ideology of hard work}

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