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on towards Vienna, there were evidences of a paralysed state, 
throuijh poverty and want of confidence. Tliis is a district 
farmed by men who own and occupy from thirty acres English to 
twenty thousand, the homesteads of which are on a most gigjantic 
scale, substantial, well arranged, and built of first-rate materials. 
The horses used here are nearly thorough -bred, strong, active 
little animals, doing all the light active work ; the whole of the 
heavy haulage is done by oxen of large size, very active and 
strong ; they are always worked with reins, either double or 
three abreast, when in the plougli, or other implement, in such 
style as would put the long-team farmers of England to the 
blush. A pair of oxen iz tasked to do six roods English per day. 
The plough and waggon are the same throughout the whole of the 
countries I passed through ; and although they are rude-looking 
implements, it would not be an easy task to improve either of 
them witliout expending more capital than would return fair in- 
terest : indeed, if thorough pulverisation of tlie soil is the object 
of cultivation, the continental plougli is superior to the British. 
Witliin some miles of Brunn I saw a field of land preparing 
for sugar-beet and turnips, the extent of which I was informed 
was upwards of 3000 acres. The management of this field was 
truly splendid ; about two-thirds was thinned, and part of it just 
up, while the remainder was being sown ; there were upwards of 
100 teams at work. Besides those teams that were hauling the 
manure, there were four drills at work, which were kept regu- 
larly going, following each other : thus they were covering about 
33 feet as they passed along. The field was upwards of three 
miles long, and they were drilling from end to end. The land was 
perfectly level, so that the whole was to me an imposing sight. 
I Avas informed that the owner of this farm was a gentleman 
from Saxony, a native of that magnificently farmed district where 
sugar-beet is grown and manufactured into sugar so extensively. 
It is evident that this gentleman will give the impulse this 
splendid country requires. 
As we approached Vienna the land became lighter, and the 
farming still more neglected ; indeed we travelled some miles 
through fine land that had been completely laid waste during 
the revolution. 
On the 25th of May I started on my way to General Haynau's 
estate at Szathmar in Hungary. 
From Vienna to Presburg, by railway, we passed through a 
<listrict of capital light dry soil, with occasional spots of poor 
light sand, and here and there some low wet soil. This district 
is nearly all cultivated, but the farming is generally bad, a system 
of overcropping being the rule. It is all open field ; weeds are 
the universal companions of every crop ; even the vineyards are 
