17G 
Variation in the Price and Supply of Wheat. 
corn is received from the Austrian States, and is exported to 
France and Switzerland ; but the grain trade is inconsiderable. 
Austria. 
We learn from Mr. Bonar's Report that the usual markets for 
the produce of rye, pulse, and other grains, are Italy, France, 
England, and Greece. Oats are imported from the " rich 
plains of the Danube in Bavaria maize from Bessarabia, and 
large quantities are exported from other parts of the empire. 
Sheep are exported to Hamburg, and imported from Bosnia, 
Servia, and Wallachia. 
The exportation of fat bullocks to England and France, which 
is greatly increasing, amounted during the past 12 months to 
175,000 head, worth 20/. each. These animals are sent by 
special trains to the North German seaports, and thence by quick- 
sailing vessels. They are chiefly from Moravia and Bohemia, 
and are fattened on the refuse of sugar and spirit manufactories. 
The principal cattle-breeding districts of Austria are Hungary 
and Transylvania. The total number of hoi'ned cattle in Austria, 
according to recent statistical returns, is 13,600,000, including 
6,100,000 cows. 
Bohemia is the chief seat of manufactures in the Austrian terri- 
tory. Locked up among the mountain fastnesses of Germany, with 
only one outlet by the Elbe, Bohemia does not contribute much 
to the wants of other countries. The growth of corn is stated at 
1,200,000 quarters wheat; 3,000,000 quarters rye; 1,700,000 
quarters barley. Population, 4,500,000. Cattle are imported 
from Poland. 
GrALICIA 
Is also " behind the mountains." It is a fertile and an old- 
exporting country, but too distant to send wheat to the coast in 
ordinary times ; the population is about the same as that of 
Bavaria ; the growth of wheat is about one-half, that of rye less, 
and of barley more : oats and potatoes are grown in large 
quantities. 
^Norway and Sweden 
Are both agricultural countries with resources limited by their 
northern latitude. The former, as will be seen by the Report in 
the Appendix, imports a large quantity of corn, as also do the 
northern countries of the Baltic generally, Avhere the rigour of 
the climate is adverse to agricultural pursuits, and but little 
wheat is grown. The poverty of the people of these regions pre- 
vents their buying much besides the inferior grains. 
