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&c. On these the German farmer who works on a suf- 

 ficiently large scale relies for his profit. It so happens 

 that the demand for all those articles must increase when 

 tlie price of corn falls, for more of them is consumed when 

 bread is cheap than when it is dear. Thus the landlord 

 holds the disease and its remedy in his own hands ; if he 

 wishes market crops, as they are here called, to rise iu 

 value, he must lower the price of grain. If corn became 

 so cheap that it was not worth growing, he would find 

 an immense demand for all other produce to indemnify 

 him. Upon this calculation have those countries relied 

 who have imposed no restrictions upon the price of grain ; 

 and we see from the experience of the Rhenish farmer 

 on a larger scale, that it is a just one where trade and 

 manufactures furnish wherewith to pay for superfluities. 

 This remuneration, however, cannot be expected in any 

 country where political or fiscal regulations favour an ac- 

 cumulation of cultivators on a small scale ; and the rule is 

 consequently as little vitiated by the experience of other 

 parts of Germany as it is by that of Bengal, where similar 

 poverty prevails amidst still richer natural advantages. 



We have before remarked that farming out land to 

 tenants is a practice that is only common on the Lower 

 Rhine. In other parts of Germany the large demesnes 

 of the crown , and of the nobility, as well as the estates of 

 corporations and foundations, are let on lease to a class of 

 tenants possessing capital, and generally specially edu- 

 cated for the cc( upation. Rents are in these instances 

 mostly rated according to the vicinity or distance of the 

 large towns. On the Lower Rhine land of all kinds is 

 to be had on lease and in allotments of all sizes. A 



