A Herman Ottó Múzeum Évkönyve 37. (1999)

FRISNYÁK Sándor: Borsod vármegye földhasznosítása a 18-19. században

and industrial plants. The extensive grassy areas served as a basis of natural fodder for animál husbandry. The contribution of the Borsod agriculture to the product rangé of the marketcentres in the North consisted of wheat, cattle and wine. The subregions of the county were usually dominated by one single branch of economy. They usually made efforts to be sulf-supporting but, in accordance with their economic potentials, they sent somé excess produce to the domestic and foreign markets. The small subregions did not end at the borders of the county, but they were integrated intő the larger region (= the Highlands). It is possible to identify six different régiónál forms of agriculture and sylviculture (Figure 9): 1. diversified flood area farming with monocultural animál husbandry and fishing (the Borsod flood areas), 2. Monoculturelike grain growing and animál husbandry on the conic deposit plains (Borsodi-Mezőség, Miskolc), 3. Policultural agriculture with significant wine and fruit production on the hills (Bükkalja area), 4. Sylviculture and forest management on the hills (the hills and basins around Ózd, Galyaság, and the western part of the Cserehát Mountains), 5. Terraced river valley with transitory farming (Sajó valley), 6. Mountain sylviculture, animál husbandry, ploughing in the clearings in the forests along the creeks and rivers (Bükk Mountains, Upponyi-, Rudabányai- and Szalonnai Mountains). In the 18

th and 19

th centuries Borsod County was one of the dynamic areas of intraand interregional economic connections. Sándor Frisnyák 602