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Continental Farming. 
and pio-"s hides, and grain of all sorts, agricultural implements of 
all the kinds used in this country ; everything was selling 25 per 
cent, higher than formerly, owing to the depreciation of the 
paper currency now in use throughout the Austrian dominions. 
1 saw new waggons, that were warranted to carry 50 cwt., sold 
for the equivalent of 5/. sterling ; new ploughs, made of wood, 
with two wheels, from IZ. to 1/. IQs. ; those at the latter price 
were useful imjilements. 
Good store bullocks, 4 years old, that will feed to from 9 cwt. 
to 10 cwt., sold at from 11. 10s. to 12/. They were in rather 
low condition ; but were expected to make from 2^d. to ?>d. per 
lb. when fat. 
Barren cows sell for about Ihd. per lb. of what they will feed 
to, and in-calf cows sell for about 2d. per lb. of what they would 
feed to. The best Hungarian cows would feed to about 8 cwt., 
and sold at the equivalent of 6/. to 11. sterling. 
Store-pigs were sold for about one-third less than in England, 
but bacon is as dear as in England. 
Farm -horses, a sort of mongrel-breed, of small size, about 
15 hands high, bad shapes, but hardy and durable, 4 to 6 years 
old, sold at from 4/. to GZ. sterling each. 
Land lets at from 1(W. to 4s. GfZ. per acre of 4800 square yards. 
Labourers are paid from \0d. tols.3f/. a day, according to ability. 
The average crop of wheat is about 24 bushels per Hungarian 
acre ; 50 bushels is a common crop upon newly broken-up land. 
Much of the best grass-land will fatten the largest bullock per 
Hungarian acre in about 100 days. 
Thrashers receive 1-1 1th of the produce for thrashing, and 
reapers receive 1-1 1th for reaping, binding, stooking, and storing 
home all sorts of grain-crops. 
The roads generally throughout Hungary are mere tracks made 
over the driest part of the land, frojn one town or village to another, 
therefore travelling overland is a rough uncomfortable task. I 
was much pleased to find that this people had studied the best 
principles of mechanics in the construction of their rude waggons 
and other carriages, and that they also displayed knowledge in 
their mode of attaching oxen or horses to wheel carriages, so 
as to enable them to get with the greatest ease through the many 
sloughs or mud-})ools that occur on these roads, or rather tracks. 
To give one instance : they yoke their horses and oxen with very 
long traces, so that the team is out of the slough upon the sound 
ground before the waggon or carriage requires severe pulling to 
draw it out ; they invariably go through these sloughs at a canter, 
so that, the moment the teams see pools of water or mud in the 
road, they start and canter through it as fast as the weight of their 
load will allow them. 
