Viga Gyula: Tevékenységi formák és javak cseréje a Bükk-vidék népi kultúrájában (Borsodi Kismonográfiák 23. Miskolc, 1986)

Plain was a common practice even in the recent past: the young animals mostly the none-yoke cattle were driven to the pastures of the large landed villages alongside river Tisza and from May, they were kept there for half of a year. In the oak forests of the mountain Bükk the pig masting was also common. In autumn, at mast-falling, the villages shepherded out their fatted pigs and the fat animals were driven home very often only for slaughter. The woody villages with large lands received pigs from other settlements, to mastfeed them in their own oak forests. The Treasury Forestry also had oak woods to let for masting. Similar to summer grazing, a wide-spread shepherd migration associated with masting. In our region, a special form of the yoked oxen's winter keep in the high lying villages developed. Due to the feedstuff shortage, the mountain carmen did not work at winter time, so they gave their yoked oxen to the farmers in the villages of plainfield character for winter keep. They paid usually money for the keep from November till May, but the temporary master, though rarely, applied the draught animal to carry manure in winter and to plough in spring. The limited pasture lands and the permanent feedstuff shortage developed varied forms of shepherd migration which the regular feedstuff trade tried to help. 4. The varied stone material of Bükk mountain played an important role in the life of the subsequent populations living here. The people of different ages utilized different stone material in their culture. Since the Middle Ages the easy carving layers of rhyolite and dacite tuff have had the biggest importance and beside them, the light grey limestone (lime burning, building) and also clay slate (roof laying and building) have gained a significant role. Even today, the signs of a specific stone culture can be observed in Bükkalja. Tuff is predominant in folk building; the cave homes and cellars carved in loose stone are peculiar. In some settlements (mostly in the villages Szomolya and Bogács) men are excellent at stone carving, many of them specialized in stonemasonry and stone cutting. They cut several means and objects for their own use (querns, troughs for animal watering, etc.) but a number of their cuttings (mainly grave-stones, road crucifixes) found way to the population of the Plain. The building stone of Bükk mountain already in the last century reached the building practice adapted in the North of the Plain. The trade in stone and stone products gave a big goods exchange to the population of Bükk region. The stone cutters from this area got role in the 178