( 21) 
madder alone, an annual profit of six millions of flo- 
rins; while that of Brabant boasts its twenty thou- 
sand bee hives; in a word, this commendable nation, 
upon an extent of surface not exceeding seventeen 
hundred square leagues, (the greater part of which 
has been redeemed from the ocean) counts two hun- 
dred and forty-three thousand horses, seven hundred 
and sixty thousand horn, cattle, about a million of 
sheep, from ten to twelve thousand goats, four hun- 
dred and eighty-nine thousand hogs, and about three 
millions of poultry, of every species. Their stock of 
manure is necessarily great, and is both well under- 
stood and well managed.” 
IX. The same causes, physical and moral, operate 
against the existence of a productive agriculture in 
Denmark and Sweden—severity of climate, poverty 
of soil, and vassalage of tenants. (1) Their resources 
are also alike, and exist principally in manufactures 
and commerce, and in mines, forests and fisheries, 
The former boasts fine pasturage and cattle in Hol- 
stein. | | , 
X. Under the common name of Germany, we in- 
clude Prussia, Saxony, Austria, Wurtemburg and 
Bavaria, and shall say a few words of each, calculat- 
ed to give a general idea of their husbandry. It was 
not to be expected that the great Frederick of Prus- 
sia (so devoted to national glory and strength) would 
disregard the interests of agriculture; and the less 
so, as in theory he considered it “ Les mamelles de 
(1) To give to despotism the air of freedom, the serfs of the crown were liberated 
at the revolution—but the example was neither approved nor followed, 
