The wool-growing industry has been almost entirely destroyed by the competition of Australia and the West, and the people are now engaged mainly in dairy-farming, timbering, graniteand marble-quarrying, and in keeping summer boarders.
The important silk industry, however, began to revive about 18go, and dairy farming is prosperous; but the condition of the vilayet is far less unsettled than that of Macedonia, owing partly to the preponderance of Moslems among the peasantry, and partly to the nearness of Constantinople, with its Western influences.
Dairy-farming and gardening are on the increase.
Dairy-farming is making some progress, especially in the Swiss colony near San Jose.
A large part of the Trent valley is under permanent pasture, being devoted to cattle-feeding and dairy-farming.
