A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve: Studia Ethnographicae 2. (Szeged, 1998)

Fodor Ferenc: A fa és az ember a Duna–Tisza közi homokhátságon

protected with great care, as life depended on it. If straw had to be burnt up, there was not any dung, neither enough harvest. The most frequent hardwood of the area was locust and poplar. Mulberry trees were useful in pigbreeding around the house. Willows (Elengus angusti-folia L.) planted on the ridge were pruned, and used for heating in baker's oven. Great value was set on vine-branch, as it had the greatest heating-quality. The most important work in winter and early spring was collecting and storing fuel for the year. Those owning little land gathered willow wood in shares. An owner kept strongly to his tree lifelong, he did not let it cut out in spite of its being in the way. There were only a few cartwrights in the area of homesteads. Handy-men prepared working-tools instead, though almost every farmer carved the simple tool-handles himself. 74