476 ' CATTLE AND DAIRY INARMING. 



Tb(! lioightB aiid tempeiaturos refer to oiicli selected idaco in the named district. 



TliG above figures are calcuLatcd l)y the Eoyal Bavarian meteorological central station. 



soil. OF BAVAKIA. 



Alliixial : Alluvial soil exists in the valleys of all larger rivers of the conntry, prin 

 cipally thoscof theDannbe and its tributaries and of the Rhine and Main. The allu- 

 vial formations of the Danube consist principally of coar.ie ,nnd lime sand and marly 

 deposits. The same character pervades the a'.lnvial of the trihut.aries of the Danube 

 coming from the south, viz, Iller, Lech, Isar, and Inu. In those tributaries riauig in 

 the north, viz, the Na.ib, Eegen, and IIz, as allnvi3.1s, quartz, mountain pebbles, and 

 sand loam predominate; bnt in the valleys of Laber, Altmnhl, and Wornitz limy al- 

 Invials abound. 



The alln vials of tho Khine consist chiefly of quartz, pebbles, clay, and sand. In the 

 Main Valley we liud mountain gravel and sand only here and there. Near Wurzburg 

 limy pebbles are found. 



Loam: Supposing loam ground' to be the opposite of limy or marly clay ground, 

 the ibllovring are the principal localities where it is found : (1) A great part of the 

 Bavarian Alps, in Upper Bavaria and Swabia. (2) In the Bavarian plateau south of 

 of the Danube, of Swabi,a, Upfier Bavaria, and Lower Bavaria. (3) lu the territory of 

 Francouia-.Tara, from Ulm over Nordlingen, Eichstadt, and Regensburg, northward to 

 Bayreuth and Lichtenfels, in the districts of Swabia and LTpper Palatinate, Middle 

 Franconia and Upper Frauconia. (4) In the shell-lime plateaus between Eothenburg, . 

 Wnrzburg to Kissongen and Melrichstadt, in the districts of Middle and Lower Fran- 

 conia. (5) On the shell-lime plateau of the Palatinate, from Homburg, Blieskastel, 

 Pirmasous, over Zweibrucben, Sickrngor-High, toLandstnhl, and in tho plain of the 

 Rhine. 



Glay : Under the supposition concerning loam ground above mentioned, clay 

 abounds, mixed with sand, in tho following di.stritts: (1) In the mountain districts 

 of the Bavarian and Upper Palatinate forests, districts of Lower Bavaria and Upper 

 P.'ilatinato. (2) In the Fichtel Monjitains and in tho district of Upper Franconia. 

 (:>) In some places in the Kcnper territory, in the district of Middle Franconia, and 

 linally in tho coal territory of the western part of the Palatinate. 



Savd : Sand soil predominates hero and ihcro, mixed with loam, in the Molixsso ter.- 

 riloryof theAlps of Upper Bavaria and Swabia. Clay s.and exists in tho mountain 



colored sandstone in Lower "Franconia (Spesshardt) and at the end of the Haardt 

 Mountains of the Palatinate. 



SUBSTRATUM. 



Umealone : Limestone is the substratum of tho soil in the following sections of tho 

 lountry: (1) In the Aljis, Upper Bavaria, and Suabia. (2) In Franconia, Jura, 

 nonthol the Dhnubo (a sni.all siiot excepted between AI)ensborg and Re"-ensbiirc'), 

 n the disfricta of Swal)ia, Upper Palatinate, Middle and l.,()wer FranconTa. (:5)"ln 

 he shcll-limotirritDry of Middle, Lower and Upper Franconia. (4) In the shell-liino 



