GERMANY. 483 



Goat of trausportatiou IVoiu Blankeuburg to Hamburg aud Bremen, 

 respectively : 



I Hamburg. 



Bremen. 



$7 04 

 23 97 



Single ji7 49 



Car-load (10 cows or 12 heil'ura) : 27 11 



i \ 



Nine square meters is taken as half a ear load, in wliicb 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, 



-Brunswicic, January 18, 1884. 



SPECIAL STATISTICS CONCKliING HAltZ CATTLE. 



Tho following iuforaiatiou was rc<iue8ted in order to properly locate, under similar 

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

 long uxjierience to Lave been iirolitablc in their native homes : 



Annual averajiequantily of milk liters*.- 1,200 to 1,600 



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



Quantitj^ of milk to 1 pound of cheese do 3 



Live weight (cow) pounds.. 700 to 800 



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

 remain iu the tields. On accou ut of the scarcity of straw tho animals stand on boards 

 on which sawdust is strewn. 



Feeding : Hay, with a sup'ploment of corn. 



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

 eiglit weeks. 



Handling products : The milk is i)laced in earthen pans ; after tho cream has been 

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

 lurd. 



CATTLE IN THE GRAND DDCHY OF HESSE-DARMSTADT. 



meport by comileiicial aoenx smitb, of mayence. 

 de'sceiption of DUOHY. 



I have the honor to make the following statement in refqionse 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' north 

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

 tremity of the upper valley of tho lihiiio, which stretches from Basle to 

 Mayence, possessing a length of about 190 miles and a l)readth of about 

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

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

 stadt this valley has its greatest width and lowest de]>ression. 



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 



" ' 1 liter = 2. 113 piuts. 



