o()8 Beport on the Agriculture of 



under the manag'ement of Herr Samuel Nagy, to whom I am 

 greatly indebted for his hospitality and information. The estate 

 comprises nearly 38,000 English acres (35,800 H. jochs),* and 

 consists of black and grey sandy soil of to 18 inches in depth, 

 and varying in tenacity, with a subsoil of sand and gravel. 

 The entire tract is divided as follows : — 



Arable 18,550. 



Pasture 7,420. 



Meadow 1,166. 



Unproductive .... 3,180. 



Woods 7,420. 



Reeds 212. 



The quality of the arable land is further indicated by the 

 yield of crops. Wheat yields 20 bushels, barley 27 bushels, and 

 oats 30 bushels per acre, on an average ; and they produce 

 24 cwts. of hay, 5 tons of potatoes, and 12|- tons of mangold, per 

 acre. 



The entire stock maintained upon this large extent of land 

 was, at the time of my visit, as follows : — 



200 Horses. 500 Earns. 



15 Bulls. 12 '^00 Ewes. 



140 Cows. 4 '500 Lambs. 

 500 Working oxen. ' 8,900 Wethers. 



120 Calves. — — - 



70 Yearlings. -^b,400 



70 2-year-olds. 



60 3-year-olds. 

 300 Fatting oxen. 



1215 



Reckoning five sheep as equivalent to one cow or bullock, 1215 

 cattle are equal to 6075 sheep. If this number is added to the 

 26,400 sheep, there is a stock equivalent to 32,475 sheep upon 

 25,600 acres of productive land — an amount which may compare 

 favourably with the stock upon many an English farm. 



An offer of 3000 acres of this land was made to a tenant a few 

 years since at 8c9. per acre, and it would now be worth 14^. to 

 I65. per acre. To the owners it returned a revenue in 1870 of 

 18,000/., or just about 10^. an acre all round ; and in 1872 it 

 returned 9000/., or 5s. per acre. This estate is surrounded 

 entirely by a belt of sandy desert, averaging about six English 

 miles across. It may, therefore, be viewed as an isolated district, 



* 1 Austrian joch = 1 '4223 English acre. 

 1 Hungarian,, = 1-06G7 ,, 



1 Metze = 1-6918 English bushel. 



