The famous Dutch cheeses.

Amsterdam (trips Amsterdam) and Roterdam has as main economic activity the maritime commerce.; the agriculture and the fishing it is two fundamental occupations of the remainder of the country. The black and white cows of Friesland are beautiful and the commerce of cheeses, whose centers are Alkmaar and Edam, is world. The market of Alkmaar takes place every Friday of the season; one or two days before innumerable cheeses are transported to Alkmaar by railroad track, highway and channel, and they pile, covers with cloths tarpaulins, in the enormous free space to the opening of the market. The to travel by there is a true pleasure.



This it takes place Friday at 10 in the morning, and during all the day, Dutch of impassive aspect remain standing next to the piles of cheeses, testing with a spade of hand, trying to diminish the price su8gerido and observing the perfection of those exquisite pieces of cheese.



Almost as known as the industry of the cheese is the cultivation of tulips and hyacinths. This it is found centered around Harlem, where the famous “Sunday of tulip”in the third week of April is celebrated, when people of every Holland responds to the old woman and celebrate city.in the cities of the interior the production of Geneva and other alcoholic beverages constitutes equally a flourishing industry.

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