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Potatoes are largely grown, and viticulture is carried on with success. The 

 Adriatic slopes yield olive oil, the northern provinces the beet employed in the 

 manufacture of sugar. Tobacco, flax, and hemp are likewise important articles of 

 cultivation. The forests are very extensive, but only in the Cis-Leithan provinces 

 are they managed with care and intelligence. These Cis-Leithan provinces, 

 though inferior in extent to the Trans Leithan ones, are fur more carefully 

 cultivated. The extent of waste land capable of cultivation is very small, whilst 



Fig. 88. — The Density of the Population of ArsTUiA-HuxGARY. 

 Scale 1 : 12,000.000. 



3g.of Paris 10" f 



Inhahitants to a Square Mile. 



ise-2os. 

 100 Miles. 



in Hungary vast tracts of swamp and steppe still await the ploughman's 

 share.* 



The two halves of the empire exhibit similar differences as to their live stock. 

 Hungary is poorer in horned cattle than Austria, but has more horses, pigs, and 

 tsheep. The empire is richer in horses than any other state of Europe, Kussia 



* Distribution of the cultivated land in acres (1870) :— 



Cis-Leitliania. 

 Arable land .... :^.5, 12^,000 



Meadows 

 Pastures 

 Forests 

 Fallow 



8,912,600 

 11, 315,000 

 23,426,600 



5,410,0(0 



Trans - Leithania. 

 26,032,900 

 9,430,180 

 10,385,200 

 20,668,600 

 13,609,000 



