2)2 AGRICULTURE ON THE RHINE. 



grown are also very fine. For cattle-feeding the tur- 

 nip-cabbage is much in use. Of this plant there are 

 two sorts : one in which the turnip is formed over the 

 surface of the ground, and this is the most tender, and 

 serves for table use as a vegetable. The other kind is 

 eoarser ; its turnip is formed under ground. Stubble 

 turnips and Swedes are in general use. Amongst the 

 novelties for an Englishman the poppy must be ranked, 

 which may here be seen to cover whole acres. The 

 seed is not only crushed to give salad oil, but is often 

 strewed over cakes, to which it imparts very little flavour, 

 and it seems to have no effect as an opiate. Tobacco 

 is a favourite fallow^ plant. M. Rau gives the following 

 rotations on three farms as specimens for the district : — 



A. 180 morgens iu stiff lowland soil. 



1. Fallow . .18 morgens tobacco 

 „ 5 „ rape 



180 morgens. 

 B. 54 acres on the Bergstrasse. 

 1. Fallow . . 8 morgens poppies 



7 

 1 



2. Winter corn 16 



3. Summer corn 10 



6 

 6 



clover 



Indian com 



spelt and rye followed by turnips 



barley and oats 



beet-root and potatoes , 



lucem 



54 morgens. 



