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1949-51_Vol.1J -    Note: 50c

Page: 80,94.
Date: 6-7.11.49.
Location: Sakaltutan
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7/11 i(0462 Ali Canveren) confirmed i(0147 Kazim Isk) - a farmer makes 500 TL to 1,000TL cash a year from his fields. In other places 2,000 to 3,000 TL

p.94 Miscellaneous ({from} p.80)
{The typist here has followed through by topic heading, jumping pages, and then revertedto the next topic on an ealier page. Not what typists did later}

6/11 i(0270 Bilal) bought half a kilo of butter at 4 TL a kilo.

7/11 i(0462 Ali Canveren) said something I didn't understand about irak - hiring men to work for one, for 200 TL a year.
Farms produce in a good year 500 to 1,000 TL. In other memleket {gl : districts} up to 3,000 TL.
10 inik (1 inik - 6 kilo, i(0185 A.O.)) load one donkey timber {seller}
Yem {feed}in a normal year half this year's price. Straw last year 3 TL a eten {cartload}, this year 30 TL.
Sakaltutanli say their fields better. timber {seller} says Kanber fields better.

k<prices, farming incomes, village rivalry, irak, shortage of feed, shortage of straw>


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