Bányai Balázs - Kovács Eleonóra (szer.): A"Zichy-expedíció"- Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei. A. sorozat 48. (Székesfehérvár, 2013)

The "Zichy Expedition"

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THE “ZICHY EXPEDITION“

György Mayer: The Zichy servants' festive garments • King Saint Stephen Museum, Etnographical Collection

employed. Here a sufficient number of day-labourers could always be hired from the neighbouring regions. This type of forestry, plant production and stock-breeding, details of which are unfortunately not known to us, was rather one-sided. It was, however, complemented with grape-growing on 50 and fruit-growing on 45 ‘cadastral holds’ as well as with the breeding of trouts.53

There were industrial zones on these holdings and the Count had investments in mining companies54 but for now we only know about their existence, not about their nature and profits.