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Here we found a spacious farmyard, enclosed by the usual 

 offices of a Hung:arian farmery : the ox and horse stables, sheep 

 stables, servants' houses, and granary. In an old distillery, 

 forming a portion of these buildings, I witnessed the style in 

 which the Slavonians, Avho come to assist in harvest, are housed. 

 A large room was littered with straw, and around the margin 

 reclined many fine -looking slovaks, both men and women, 

 dressed in their peculiar and picturesque garb. Again, driving 

 forward, I once more found myself amid regularly laid out 

 square fields, bearing splendid crops, or pastures in which fine 

 merino lambs grazed up to their eyes in sainfoin, but with no 

 hurdles. There is not a hurdle to be seen in Hungary, not a 

 fence nor a gate. It is impossible to convey a correct impression 

 of such an estate as Tot-Megyer. Its flatness, richness, and vast 

 extent, bounded by no hedge, gives it a character difficult to 

 realise in England, except upon the marsh-land of the Eastern 

 Counties. The following facts regarding it were supplied by the 

 head steward, who was exceedingly hospitable and courteous. 

 The entire estate contains, — 



22 , 669y^ = 1(3 , 035 y'.jVo "I'^^tal estate. 



The rotations followed upon the arable portion are of two 

 kinds — a five and a ten years' course. They are as follow : — 



I. II. 



1. Fodder Vetches, dunged. 1. Rape, dunged. 



2. Winter Wheat. 2. Winter Wheat. 



3. Sugar-Beet. 3. Sugar-Beet and Mangold. 



4. Barley. 4. Barley. 



5. Oats. 5. Winter Rye. 



6. Indian Corn, dunged. 



7. Lucern or Sainfoin. 



8. Ditto. 



9. Ditto. 

 10. Ditto. 



In some parts of the estate, according to circumstances, a 

 freer system of cropping is adopted. 



