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CROPS ON DlFFERENT SOILS, ETe. 183nuril'l!2:too must precede the sowing; and four or five mowings in theseason are reckoned a good crop.Sainfoin yields hut one or two cut..tings, requires no manure,and maintains its place three or four years.Clover or trefoil IS only fit for moist ground. It.yields two or three c~t..tings.--After clearing the ground of these green crops, it may he soW'ntllree successive years withwhite crops, and yield a good return *.Commonly frorn half a septier' to three..fourths of one, or from fifty toseventy-fivy pounds of seed, is allowed to à septarée of land, in seed.Good land requîres proportiQnably less, and that of inferior qualitymore.The return iu common wheat is from eight to fifteen for oue;of/fine wheat, caUed heretouzelle, from five to twelve for one.Sornearid spots, orthose whichhave not been well manured, or whichhavesuffered hy '\'Veather, willnot yield more than two or three for one~Rye isa very uncertaincrop in this climate, either too dry or too wetfor it.Oats succeed generally, and yield an ampIe crop t. 'fllfee orfour ploughings are requisite to till a field well: one plough will turntwo septarées in a day.live to six francs.The day's labour of it may he rated at from'fhus the tillage of a septœrée for the year costs from.ten to twelve francs. But to thi8is to be added .. the cost of clodding,and weeding, which, however, is hut a trifie; and aIl together may he'coverèd hy the t:weJve francs.* Three crops of wllite producc are taken hE-re sometimes after manuring, or a summer fallow•.Berc the corn produced is not.adequate to the. interior consumption, and the marketis suppliedfrom a distance.t Sorne calcuHüe the rctums in grain here at ten Jor one. The)' ohject here to dipping theploughinto the new earth, complaining of an açid in it; probably no other thall the vitriolic: )'etthe soil is calcareous. The peach-tree dies at about twellty years of age, from the same reasonapparently•. They use platre asa manure, dustedôh lightly before raine 'Hurnet is considerablyQultivated in France," but nother~,."