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which is raised in an enclosure of mason-work on good 

 farms, has a wooden pump attached to it to raise the 

 liquor into the carts with barrels affixed for its convey- 

 ance. An ohm is considered equal to If cwt. of cow- 

 dung, and 32 barrels of 5 ohms are used to the morgen, 

 or 48 barrels to the acre, when no other manure is 

 applied. The eftect of the liquid manure is, however, 

 limited to the one crop, and is not felt in those succeed- 

 ing. A cow is reckoned to give 21 ohms or 4^ barrels 

 in the year. Sheep-folding for manure is common, and 

 the money paid for the benefit is a great inducement to 

 those who keep sheep. A calculation has been made 

 for the soil of Wiblingen, according to which 400 sheep 

 must be folded for tobacco ten nights, for spelt six nights, 

 for barley four nights on the acre. In Schwetzingen 150 

 sheep are folded eight successive nights upon an acre of 

 land for barley. 



In the course of the stroll that we have suggested 

 the stranger may make himself acquainted with many 

 plants that are not common objects of farming in Eng- 

 land. Instead of wheat, spelt (Triticum Spelta) is 

 the common bread corn. It suits a dry climate, and, 

 like the hard Odessa wheat, contains more nourishing 

 particles than the ordinary wheat. It is, however, en- 

 cumbered with a husk which makes the cleaning and 

 grinding expensive. Rye is common on the sands. 

 Maize or Indian corn is very frequent as a fallow crop, 

 and is daily increasing in use. Ingenious machines 

 have been invented to shed the grains, but it still remains 

 a difficult process. The fallows are here covered 

 with cabbages, carrots, and beet-root that attains an 

 extraordinary magnitude. In good seasons the potatoes 



