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Brought forward £ 24 IG 8 

 From which deduct — 



Cost of calf . 10s. 



Price at two years !jL 



Three years' feeding 12/. £l7 10 



£ 7 6 8 

 The quantity of milk is reckoned low because the cow 

 may do light work 150 days in the year. The dung 

 valued at Sd. per week adds 5/. to the above sum, which 

 yields 50 per cent, on the total outlay ; whereas the large 

 draught-ox returns but 44 per cent, to the stock farmer. 

 The latter is the common peasants' calculation. 



On regaining the Rhine at Neuwied, the traveller 

 greets with pleasure a milder climate and more genial 

 soil than his mountain excursion showed him. The large 

 basin presented by the valleys of the Wied and the 

 Moselle, with the depth of alluvial soil and the mild 

 climate of South Germany, which may there be said to 

 commence, do not, however, efface from his recollection 

 the skill and industry with which the meadows and 

 mountain sides of the vale of the Sieg are rendered pro- 

 ductive. Where nature does much for the i'armer he is 

 apt to relax in his efforts, unless spurred by the demands 

 of a numerous population, and in the neighbourhood of 

 Neuwied and Coblentz no such pressure exists. The 

 fruit-trees covering the fields, and the vines scaling the 

 slopes of the hills, tell of other enjoyments than those at 

 the command of the Westphalian miners. There is, 

 however, no greater appearance of well-being, either iu 

 the persons or in the dwellings of the inhabitants of the 

 Rhenish villages than we left behind us in the less fa- 

 voured districts. In dress, the people, especially on the 

 left bank, are less neat, and their manners indicate less 



