Though some few of the large proprietors may, 

 by the increase of their flocks of sheep, and by the' 

 assiduous attention to every branch of cultivation, 

 have improved their land and raised the increase of 

 their seed, I see no reason to believe that to be the 

 case to an extent which can have a sensible influ- 

 ence on the average of the whole mass of production. 



If we consider the calamities which Prussia en- 

 dured, and the strenuous exertions she made to ter- 

 minate them, we shall scarcely suppose that the 

 interval from 1815 to 1825 has been sufficient to 

 regain what she had lost, in the eight years which 

 preceded that period, more especially as up to the 

 present time the market prices of her chief produc- 

 tions have been suffering a regular decline. 



I should not deem the other maritime provinces 

 of Prussia to be much more productive than Pomera-* 

 nia, as a whole, though in East and in West Prussia 

 there is rather a larger proportion of the land that is 

 capable of producing cpops of Wheat and Oats. If 

 will happen to a traveller, in pursuit of Agricultural 

 information, even in England, and much more in 

 countries where the business of cultivation is con- 

 ducted in a much lower manner, that his attention 

 will be invited to those properties which are best 

 managed, where the several processes of husbandry 

 are most sedulously performed, and where the pro- 

 duce is the greatest. Hence almost every writer on 

 agricultural subjects has been led to over-rate the 

 actual average produce of land, in the several coun- 

 tries which he may have visited. 



Like others, I was prevailed upon to pay the 

 closest attention to the details and face of the land 

 of the most skilful, the most affluent, and most pro- 

 ductive proprietors. I visited several noblemen, 

 whose knowledge of and attention to agriculture, 

 was fully equal to that of ay men in this or any 

 other country ; and if the produce of the land was 



