An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles . encyclopdiaofa01loud Year: 1831 Book I. AGRICULTURE IN GERMANY. 99 6S1 The rearing and c
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles . encyclopdiaofa01loud Year: 1831 Book I. AGRICULTURE IN GERMANY. 99 6S1 The rearing and care of bees were much attended to during the latter part of the eighteenth century ; with a view to which a public school was opened at Vienna, and some in the provinces; and great encouragement was given to such as kept hives. Some proprietors in Hungary possessed 300 stock hives. It is customary there to transport them from place to place, preferring sites where buckwheat or the lime tree abounds. The honey, when procured, is greatly increased in value by exposure to the open air for some weeks during winter ; it then becomes hard and as white as snow, and is sold to the ma- nufacturers of liquors at a high price. The noted Italian liqueur, rosoglio, made also in Dantzic, is nothing more than this honey blanched by exposure to the frost, mixed with a spirituous liquor: though the honey used is said to be that of the lime tree, which is produced only in the forests of that tree near Kowno on the Niemen, and sells at more than three times the price of common honey. 632. The live stock of Austria consists of sheep, cattle, horses, pigs, and poultry. Considerable attention has lately been paid to the breeding of sheep, and the Merino breed has been introduced on the government estates and those of the great pro- prietors. The original Hun- garian sheep (OVis strepsi- ceros) ( )bears upright spiral horns, and is covered with a very coarse wool. ' Im provement on this stock
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