Cseri Miklós - Horváth Anita - Szabó Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Discover Rural Hungary!, Guide (Szentendre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, 2007)

VI Great Plains - VI-10 Farmstead from Nagykőrös

• Life on the farmstead The farmstead is a living exhibit. Our aim is to demon­demijohn indicating that the mas­ter and his grown-up sons have just returned from town on Sunday afternoon. under the same roof. On the left, the manger and the ditch for liq­uid manure indicates the place of animals; on the right, an open chimney with the fire ledge and cooking range make up the kitchen. The furnishing dates from the 2nd half of the 1930s. The furni­ture in the room was too shabby for the town house and had been brought to the farm­stead. On the table there is a wicker travelling basket and a strate agriculture and hus­bandry techniques by farm­ing the surrounding land and keeping traditional Hungarian domestic animals (horses, grey cattle, donkeys, goats, racka sheep, mangalica pigs, geese, ducks, hens, and pigeons) in the farmyard. The farming year can be followed from ploughing to harvest, from the spring lambing to the winter pig-kilting. Inte­rested visitors can take part in everyday activities such as preparing fodder; feeding the animals and can watch the cows being milked and dairy products being made.

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