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AGRICUI/rURE ON THE RIIIXE. 



Wine Productiou in the Rhenish Province in the folloAA ing 

 Years. 



The average oi" these 24 years is 359,058 eimers, or 



5,385,000 imp. gallons as the production of 48,968 



morgens, or 31,195 acres, being nearly 185 gallons per 



acre. In the years quoted in the table, 2 were average 



years, 12 were below, and 10 above the average. The 



years 1821 and 1830 may be considered as total failures ; 



whereas 1826, 1828, 1834, and 1835 were extraordinarily 



favourable seasons. The ground under wine-cultivation 



in the Prussian part of the Rhine and jNIoselle valleys, 



and the adjacent vales, was classified as follows for the 



land-tax : — 



In the first class were 9,021 morgens. 

 second class „ 12,199 „ 



third class 

 fourth class 

 fifth class 

 sixth class 



14.598 



10.529 



2,336 



283 



Little more than one-fifth of the whole was, therefore, 

 classed as first-rate soil. This arises from the circum- 

 stance that the climate not being very favourable in the 



portion 



of the Middle Rhine that belongs to Prussia, it 



