Contributions by correspondents of Czech Ethnographical Society create a new section of Ethnographical Bulletin. A lot of valuable field information has been acquired in this way over the years.
Zdeněk Škorpík writes in his text Icing about already extinct practice connected in the past primarily with innkeeping and business. The ice which was broken in pieces during winter was transferred to specially adapted rooms where it was used for keeping food and drinks cool until next winter. The practice of icing in Silůvky stopped at the end of the 1940s.
The article by another correspondent, František Pešík from Brdo in Plzeň region, brings a detailed description of making wooden rakes used on farms (Rakes). Simple technological process and instruments were used by rake making in domestic conditions.
Rakes differed according to the purpose for which they were used: narrow ones served for hay tedding, wider ones for raking stubble fields and there were also special rakes for tedding barley and oat. and Tento abstrakt je společný pro 2 předchozí články zařazené do oddílu Příspěvky dopisovatelů České národopisné společnosti