214 AGRICULTURE OS THE RHFNE. 



Tobacco is more extensively grown in the Palatinate, 

 on both banks of the Rhine, than in any part of Ger- 

 many. Here, as on the Lower Rhine, it is an expensive 

 crop, and remunerates less on the rich soils than on the 

 sandy grounds. M. Rau estimates the labour at 17^ florins, 

 or about 1/. 10s. ; the dung at 10 florins, or I6s. 8d. ; 

 and the plants at 2i florins, or 4s. id., per morgen. The 

 yield is about 7 cwts. of leaves, which sell for 6 dollars 

 per cwt., leaving a return of 42 dollars, or 71. 15s., for an 

 outlay of 30 florins, or 21. 12?. The price is higher if the- 

 ferraenting process described at page 33 is undergone, 

 which is not always the case, as the leaves are marketable 

 after being merely dried. 



As the land on which tobacco is grown in the Grand 

 Duchy of Baden pays no extra land-tax, its area is not 

 exactly ascertained. Official estimates state it to be 

 13,500 morgens of ^^ acre, the yield of which averages 

 110,000 cwts., being 8 cwts. per Prussian morgen, or 

 14 cwts. per acre. 



The following is the Ofiicial Return of the area of 

 land under tobacco in the Zollverein : — 



The total average of the Zollverein is thus little more 



