Wheat, 282 lbs. 879 lbs. 49 lbs. Rye, 243 " 661 " 34 lbs. Pease, 309 " 431 " 33 lbs. Potatoes, 525 " 3,785 " 178 lbs. In Saxony, from 1838 to 1852, the average prices stood as follows: _Of Rye._ _Of Wheat._ _Of Potatoes._ One lb. of dry substance, 1 1.28 .95 One lb. of protein substance, 1 1.11 1.78 One lb. of fecula, 1 1.14 0.72 (loc. cit.) The high price of protein in wheat depends probably on the more agreeable appearance and pleasanter taste of wheat flour; the still higher price of potato protein on the exceedingly easy mode of its preparation.] [Footnote 162-4: As regards food alone, the cost of the support of a plowman on Count Podewil's estate, reduced by _Rau_, Lehrbuch, § 191, to the unit of rye, is annually 1,655 lbs. of rye. According to _Koppe_, it is 1,952 lbs.; to _Block_, 2,300 lbs.; to _Kleemann_, from 1,888 to 2,552 lbs.; to _Möllenger_, 2,171 lbs. The first three estimate the cost in meat at 78, 160 and 60 pounds. Compare _Block_, Beitr. Z. Landgüterschätzungskunde, 1840, 6. Exhaustive estimates for all Prussian governmental districts in _von Reden_, Preussische Erwerbs, und Verkehrsstatistik, 1853, I, 177 ff., according to which the requirement, per family, varies between 71 thalers in Gumbinnen and 204 thalers in Coblenz, the average being 105 thalers. According to more recent accounts, a laborer's family in East Prussia, gangmen not included, get along very well on 177 thalers per annum. (_von der Goltz_, Ländl. Arbeiterfrage, 1872, 9 ff.) In Mecklenburg, omitting _Hofgänger_, on 183 thalers. (Ann. des. patr. Vereins, 1865, No. 26.) The necessary outlay of the family of an agricultural day laborer in England, in 1762, was estimated as follows: for bread and flour, £6 10s. per annum; for vegetables and fruit, £1 1-2/3s.; for fuel, light and soap, 2-9-5/6s.; for milk, butter and cheese, £1 1-6-5/6s.; for meat, £1 6s.; for house-rent, 1-6s.; for clothing, bedding, etc., 2-16-1/3s.; for salt, beer and colonial wares, 1-16-5/6s.; for medicine, expenses attending confinement of wife, etc., 1-6½s. (_J. Wade_, History of the middle and working Classes, 1853, 545.) Concerning 1796, compare _Sir F. M. Eden_, State of the Poor, I, 660, 1823; _Lowe_, on the present Condition of England. Compare on the receipts and expenses of ten working families in and about Mühlhausen, the tables in the Journal des Economistes, October, 1861, 50; and further _Ducpétiaux_, Budgets économiques des Classes ouvrières en Belgique, 1855. According to _Playfair_ in _Knop_, Agriculturchemie, I, 810, ff., different classes of grown men need daily food.