Variation in the Price and Supjili/ of Wheat. 233 
years it wmild not iVtcli move than lialf that sum. Still grass laiitl w ith very 
little cultivation will yield 4^. per acre, but little more than one y( ar's jiurchase 
of the tmclearcd estate. 
I visited the farms of the only two other English colonists in the province, 
and they assured me that they were doing well ; and in their ojunion the 
prospects of English colonisation, at all events as far as regards the breeding of 
cattle, were most promising. 
The Government of Algeria is most anxious, hy ever}' means in its power, 
to induce English to settle in this country ; and it is even rumoured that it 
contemplated recurring to the system of granting free concessions. 
JIOROCCO. 
REPonr BY Mr. Consul Wooldridge for 1804. — The harvest has been by 
no means so good as in former years, owing, first, to the unusual dryness of 
the season during the winter of 18G3-G4 ; and, secondly, to the almost com- 
jilete abandonment, since the revolt of 1863, of the Medivona districts by its 
inhabitants, who are almost the only agriculturists of the provinces of Dar-el- 
baida. From the time the subjection of these tribes was enforced by their 
Kaid, they have almost all deserted their lands and established themselves in 
other parts of the empire. For these reasons a very small quantity of either 
wheat, barley, beans, or peas, has been produced. Maize, however, which was 
sown later in the season, and escaped the dry weather, has been more abundant. 
Owing to the long-continued drought which prevailed in the early part of 
the year, there was, as I have already stated, a great deficiency in the vai'ious 
crops of cereals and pulses. 
Servia. 
Large numbers of hogs are exported from Servia to Austria and Turkey ; 
they are fed partly on maize, but their chief dependence is on the acorns 
of tlie Servian forests ; and since the wanton devastation of the forests 
the pig trade is less productive. Gallicia is becoming the rival of Servia in 
this trade. Poultry ought to be plentiful, but instead of being reared they 
are allowed to help themselves to what they can jjick up, witli the pig for a 
competitor. The peasants are too lazy to collect the eggs, six of which are 
worth the value of a fowl. Land is of little value ; labour and capital 
are wanting ; the people are degraded and satisfied with the bare means of 
subsistence. Servia and all the provinces north of the Balkans and the 
mountains of Upper Albania liave an extremely variable climate, with inter- 
mittant cold and rain in autumn. The people get drunk on a siAvii distilled 
from plums. 
Mining resources in iron, copper, and lead, are considerable. 
Population has decreased: it is estimated at 1,086,841, of which 1,000,000 
is rural. 
Every peasant has a ful'-grown oak-tree assigned him for a coffin. 
The comparative state of agriculture in any part or province of the Ottoman 
Empire may be pretty accurately determined by the proportion which the 
cultivation of maize holds to that of corn in general — of wheat, barley, oats, and 
rye. Maize is extensively grown in Bosnia, still more so in Albania and the 
Herzegovina, and most of all in Servia, where it forms the almost exclusive 
article of the people's food. In the other provinces of European Turkey, the 
better sort of cereals above mentioned, as also rice and linseed, form, both for 
home consumption and exportation, the chief products, maize being generally 
superadded, for the support of the poorer class of labourers ; the Mussulman 
populatitjn produce and consume wheat and rye, which they for the most part 
nrefer to maize. The reason why maize is the food preferred here is, that it 
