If instead Of such an arrangement this same land were to be divided among six or seven large landholders, and a system of management by stewards and day labourers were to supersede the husbandry of the small proprietors, in a hundred years the Limagne would doubtless be as waste, forsaken, and miserable as the Campagna di Roma is at the present day.
4.

In Slavonia, where the patriarchal economy is retained up to the present day, the whole family, often to the number of fifty or even a hundred persons, remains together in the same house under the orders of the house-father (Goszpodar) chosen by the whole family for life.

The property of the household, which consists chiefly in cattle, is administered by the house-father; the surplus is distributed according to the family-branches.

Private acquisitions by industry and trade remain separate property.
Instances of quitting the household occur, in the case even of men, e.g.by marrying into a stranger household (Csaplovies, -Slavonien-, i.

106, 179).