The Lachs have settled in an area more conducive for farming, with more fertile soils and milder climate, than the mountain areas. This is why vegetable and fruit growing and gardening developed in the first half of the 19^th century. Cereal sown included wheat, rye and barley. Thanks to the favourable climate that guaranteed good crops, farming was still done in a very traditional way, with the use of hand-operated, archaic tools, often unchanged since the feudal times. This part of the museum focuses on farming and contains ploughing equipment. Horses were used for field work that required pulling; conservative farmers used oxen and the poorest ones used cows, hence the exhibits related to this area of work. Hoes and wooden shovels were used to loosen soil in vegetable gardens and orchards. A large, chiselled wooden shovel was used for the preliminary cleaning of grain after threshing. Wooden pliers that were used for extracting thistles are an unusual piece of equipment you can see in the museum. The exhibition also presents traditional wooden sheaths for whetstones called ‘kuski’. A ‘kuska’ worn at the belt made it easier for a reaper to sharpen his scythe frequently at work. Self-made three- or two-pronged pitchforks were helpful during the harvest when grain and hay had to be loaded onto a wagon.