66 AGRICULTURE ON TUB RHIKE. 



town, for the demand of which the cultivation is of course 

 adapted. Some of these farms are upon a very large scale, 

 comprising from 500 to 1000 acres, and indeed through- 

 out this whole district, which is more trading than manu- 

 facturing, large allotments farmed by their owners, or by 

 tenants on lease, are more common than lower down the 

 river. For minute information respecting the state of 

 these holdings, and of the calculations of the cultivators, 

 the best source is accessible in the ready communications 

 of the gentlemen connected with the Agricultural Society 

 and model farm at Popplesdorf, near Bonn. 



Schwerz gives the following as the yield of corn near 

 Diiren : — 



,, ,. Per Colo''ne ti 

 *^*^'«'- Morgen. P^^ acre. 



Wheat . . . 31 (of 340 lbs.) = 20 bushels (of 60 lbs.) 



Rye . . . . 4 (of 300 lbs.) =24 , , (of 50 lbs.) 



Barley . . . 4^ (of 220 lbs) = 28 ,, (of 36 lbs.) 



Winter ditto . 6 (of 220 lbs.) = 36 ,, (of 36 lbs.) 



Spring Wheat . 3 (of 340 lbs.) - 1 7 ,, (of 60 lbs.) 



Oats after clover 10 (of 190 lbs.) = 57 , , (of 28 lbs.) 



Rape-seed . . 7 of 2 hectolitres = 35 ,, of 36 litres. 



The same authority gives the following rotation and 

 crops as he found them in the circle of Steinbach : — 



Rye or wheat after fallow 4^ Malter = 26 bushels per acre. 

 Rye following ... 3 , , 17 , , , , 



Oats on clover stubbles .9 , , 50 , , , , 



Rye following oats . . 3 , , 17 , , , , 



Oats on rye-stubble . . 5 , , 29 , , , , 



On the large well-managed farms the yield of wheat 

 and rye is somewhat greater. It must also be remarked, 

 that the numbers above given are taken from a course in 

 which rye follows wheat and is followed by clover, M'hich 

 after one year's ley is broken up for oats. Flax is in 



