Value..

Labor (two days per week)................................................

.$175,000,000

Tithe of crops, etc................................................................

. 60,000,000

Male tribute, timber................................................................

. 7,000,000

Female tribute, spun wool. ................................................................

9,000.000

Fowl, eggs, butter................................................................

5,000,000

Total.......................................... ...

.$256,000,000

There were 7,000,000 serfs, whose tribute averaged more than $35 per head, which was, in fact, the rent of their farms. Some Bohemian nobles had as many as 10,000 serfs. The redemption was effected by giving the nobles 5 per cent. Government scrip, and land then rose 50 per cent, in value.