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experienced on the Continent. Grass and green 

 crops flourish in all parts of the country, 

 and both in the low lands and on the 

 mountain pastures of the west and north, 

 sheep feed unsheltered and unhoused during 

 both winter and summer. Beasts of prey are 

 unknown. 



The annual rainfall in the lower parts of the and 



rainfall. 



country varies from 25 to 35 inches. In the 

 mountainous districts these figures may be 

 doubled. But, limiting our consideration to the 

 cultivated lands, it must be obvious that an 

 annual rainfall upon an acre of land, in the one 

 case of 2,500 tons and in the other of 3,500 tons, 

 accompanied by corresponding humidity of at- 

 mosphere, will greatly modify the respective 

 systems of husbandry practised. Accordingly, 

 the eastern half of the country may be correctly 

 described as the corn and fattening region, and 

 the western half as the dairy and breeding 

 region of the kingdom. The winter tempera- 

 ture is more severe in the east than the west, 

 and that of the summer warmer and more sunny_, 

 and better suited to the ripening of wheat; 



