[Footnote G: Sismondi.]

[Footnote H: Gibbon.]




CHAPTER V.

Agricultural Products--Cereals--Misapplication of
Soil--Tobacco--Current Prices--Vine Disease--Natural Capabilities
of Land--Price of Labour--Dalmatian _Scutors_--Other
Products--Manufactures--Commerce--Relations with Bosnia--Able
Administration of Omer Pacha--Austria takes Alarm--Trade
Statistics--Imports--Exports--Frontier
Duties--Mal-administration--Intended Reforms.


The agricultural products of the Herzegovina are wheat, barley, rice,
linseed, millet, tobacco, and grapes. Of the cereals, Indian corn is
most cultivated, and forms the staple article of consumption, as is also
the case in Servia and the Danubian principalities. The little wheat
that is grown is found in the northern and eastern parts of the
province, where the soil is better adapted for it; but nowhere is it
either abundant or of good quality. The best which is sold in the towns
is imported from Bosnia. Barley is more extensively grown, and horses
are fed upon it here and throughout Turkey generally. Linseed is only
grown in small quantities in the northern parts, while the district of
Gliubinski is almost entirely devoted to the culture of rice. As the
quantities produced barely suffice for home consumption, no exportation