64 AGRICULTUKE ON THE EHliNE. 



ducfi of the richest and best managed dairies, and its 

 correctness has been questioned for the uplands. 



Where the land does not suit clover well, the resource 

 of the farmer is the oil-cake. Hence the light pressure to 

 which the cakes, both of rape and linseed, are exposed, 

 and which has recently been turned to account, I believe, 

 by English millers, who have pressed them over again. 

 Such cakes are here in great demand in dry seasons, and in 

 winter are boiled up with straw, potatoes, and other fodder 

 to keep the covis in milk. The butter, as well as the fat 

 cattle, find a ready sale in the manufacturing districts ot 

 Crefeld, Aix-la-Chapelle, and Belgium ; and grazing land, 

 where at all fertile, sells at a high price, being limited to 

 the banks of brooks and rivulets. On the uplands, 300 to 

 400 dollars ; in the low inundated land, 500 to 600 dol- 

 lars, and even more, are paid for the English acre, while 

 fresh butter sells from ninepence to tenpence per pound. 

 A good cow may be had for thirty-five to fifty dollars. 

 (51. OS. to 71. 10s.) The calf sells at two months for 

 twelve dollars. (1/. 16s.) The cow fattened before 

 winter in the Belgian fashion, to be replaced by 

 another in the spring, sells for sixty to seventy-five 

 dollars (9/. to 11/. 10s.) to retail butchers. There is, 

 however, a great deal of unreclaimed land between 

 Maestricht and Crefeld. In the present year a pur- 

 chase of 700 morgens was made by a small company 

 of capitalists to bring it into cultivation. They paid 

 14,000 dollars for the whole, or at the rate of 1/. 

 18s. per English acre, a price that under the cir- 

 cumstances must be considered as illustrating the high 

 value of land, of which we have spoken. We have 



