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To judge accurately and in detail the agricultural value of these 
estates might be difficult even for an expert agriculturist. How- 
ever, a layman can see what is being done on such an estate and can 
comprehend the difference between the fields which are carefully 
fertilized and cultivated and the broad sand wastes through which 
one passes by rail. But these estates are not. merely farms—that is, 
they do not serve agricultural purposes solely. They are the homes 
of the nobility, at least in great part, and while some of the nobility 
no doubt are good agriculturists, others (and even the good agri- 
culturists themselves) regard their farm profits as secondary to 
game preservation. This was well illustrated by conditions seen at 
Neuguth. 
This was the first of the estates visited by. the writer on which he 
found that at least a small part of the alcohol produced was used 
industrially. The owner has a high-spéed automobile which he runs 
with alcohol, and in this way more than 1,000 gallons (4,000 liters) 
are consumed annually. The castle, the distillery, the wagon barn, 
the cow stable, the saw mill, and the carpenter shop, are lighted by 
means of alcohol. The distillery has an alcohol motor for pumping 
water and for running the grist and flour mill during afternoons 
when the steam is kept low and also during the summer months 
when there is no steam. The alcohol consumed on the estate an- 
nually exceeds 5,000 gallons. 
TREBEN. 
The Dominium Treben, owned and managed by Baron von 
_Leesen, is about an hour’s ride by wagon from Lissa, in the Prov- 
ince of Posen. Schwetzkau, a large village with a post office, main- 
tains communication with Lissa by mail coach. The Province of 
Posen is that part of the former Kingdom of Poland which in the 
partition of that State was assigned to Prussia. 
_ The soil appears to be of a somewhat heavier quality than that of 
| Neuguth, corresponding possibly to that found beyond Leuben, since 
it admits of beet cultivation; but evidently it is much lighter than 
the soil of the typical beet sections to the west of Berlin toward 
Magdeburg. 
In the absence of the inspector the superintendent of the dis- 
_tillery acted as guide. He also serves in the capacity of paymaster 
_and subinspector at Treben. The inspector has general charge of 
_the two estates, Treben and Petersdorf, which together constitute 
the “ dominium.” 
The data which were obtained were given by the superintendent. 
The distillery was erected at a cost of between $19,000 and $21,500, 
and was completed in 1906. Although not as fine a structure as the 
