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larger farms, with suitable buildings, at less than 5 to G 

 dollars per Prussian morgen, or English acre, where the 

 situation offers no remarkable advantages. 



The period of entering here is usually the 1st of May ; 

 occasionally, however, the 9th of November. The going- 

 out tenant leaves dung and straw behind him, and claims 

 the winter corn sown, which must not cover more than 

 one-third of the arable land. There are no other valua- 

 tions, and the outlay for fencing is confined to the clearing 

 a few ditches, quickset hedges having disappeared on the 

 traveller's leaving the Belgian frontier. 



