22 AGRICULTURE OX THE RHINE. 



Yield. Price. Amount. 



100 sheep, wool, at 5 lbs. 500 lbs. at Is. 8d. £42 13 



£955 3 

 Deduct interest on 2000/. stock . £l00 

 Wages 105 



Eepairs of utensils, &c. ... 50 



Fuel (coals;, veterinary bill, &c. 60 



310 



£645 3 



The profit on milk and cattle sold may be set off 

 against the butcher's bill for extraordinaries, and if 

 45/. be estimated to meet the general and local 

 taxes falling on the ground, we see that 600/. per annum 

 may be cleared by a farmer who would live with his ser- 

 vants off 200 acres in the Duchy of Cleves. If the 

 farmer keeps a gentleman's establishment united with his 

 farm, he must deduct the expense of it from his gross pro- 

 fit ; in doing which it will probably appear that as much 

 comfort and luxury may be jjurchased for that sum in Ger- 

 many as 1200Z. per annum would command in England. 



We shall shortly review the items that w^e hare given 

 for the sake of elucidation. The sale of an equal quan- 

 tity of potatoes to that consumed on the farm is found in 

 the greater part of Germany to be impossible. As every 

 one grows his own crop, it is only by changing the shape 

 in which the superabundance is sold that it can be dis- 

 posed of. Hence the necessity for the distillery and 

 brewery which are found on all large farms. The extra 

 wheat and barley raised w^ould also find no sale at home 

 in ordinary years, without this subsidiary help, the profit 

 on which, however, allows a good price to be reckoned 

 in the farm books. Those who are disposed to be criti- 



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