GERMANY. 483 



Cost of transportation from Blankenburg to Hamburg and Bremen, 

 respectively : 



Nine square meters is taken as half a car-load, in which four cows or 

 five heifers can be placed. The person accompanying must be provided 

 with a third-class railway ticket. 



WILLIAMS C. FOX, 



Consul. 

 UNITED STATES CONSULATE, 



Brunswick* January 18, 1884. 



SPECIAL STATISTICS CONCERING HARZ CATTLE. 



The following information was requested in order to properly locate, under similar 

 conditions in the United States, such foreign domesticated animals as have proved by 

 long experience to have been profitable in their native homes : 



Annual average quantity of milk .liters*.. 1,200 to 1,600 



Quantity of milk to 1 pound of butter do 11 to 12 



Quantity of milk to 1 pound of cheese do 3 



Live weight (cow) pounds.. 700 to 800 



Methods of housing : In summer the cows are driven into sheds at night ; the heifers 

 remain in the fields. On account of the scarcity of straw the animals" stand on boards 

 on which sawdust is strewn. 



Feeding : Hay, with a supplement of corn. 



Breeding : Breeding very extensive. Calves are suckled by the mother from six to 

 eight weeks. 



Handling products : The milk is placed in earthen pans ; after the cream has been 

 taken off, it is heated; small round cheese (Harzkiise) are manufactured from the 

 curd. 



CATTLE IN THE GKAND DUCHY OF HESSE-DAKMSTADT. 



REPORT BY COMMERCIAL AGENT SMITH, OF MAYENOE. 

 DESCRIPTION OF DUCHY. 



I have the honor to make the following statement in response to cir- 

 cular instruction of the 18th July last, received October 3. 



The Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, within which this consular 

 office is situated, lies between the degrees of 49 24' and 50 51 7 north 

 latitude, and 25 32' and 27 19' east longitude, at the northern ex- 

 tremity of the upper valley of the Ehine, which stretches from Basle to 

 Mayence, possessing a length of about 190 miles and a breadth of about 

 14 to 28 miles, with an elevation above the sea at Basle of 800 feet, and 

 at Mayence of 268, and sinking from south to north. In Hesse-Darm- 

 stadt this valley has its greatest width and lowest depression. 



The duchy is made up of three provinces, two of which are south of 

 the river Main, and one north of it ; between which two divisions runs 



*lliter=2.113 pints. 



