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C,ULTIVÂTION OP LÂNDS,~ cnops, ETC. 1'85atenalltseU htswheat under twelve francs the septier, his rye unders.even, his oats under four, he cannot pay his rent out of his ground.A yoke of oxen will plough a septaree ofland and· a half in a day~It is five days' labour of one man to break up a septarée of groundt'hat has been already cultivated; but where this has not been the case,thelabour wiU clepend upon whatever is the natural quality of the soil.Four ploughings are necessary fora sowing. A septarée of grain isreaped for three francs. Men~s harvest labour is usuaUy thirty sousa...day.C•. answers.-Return of tillage or wheat crops may be rated in land~f0the lowestqu~lityattllree, in that of middJing quality at five, andin ·the best land at nincand even ten for one. Aftera wheat cropa fallow must ensue. Land of the first quality may, however, tha.tyear receive a crop of vetchesor millet to eut green. l\'lillet "8ells0'atseven francs., The value of a 'crop of millet is about equal to thatacrop of wheat.Lands are genera1Jy let,wlienever they are let, in one of these ways,namely-half profits; the division to ta:ke place when they have beeumarketed, or at an agreed-on priee for the bTround, the proprietor alwayspaying the taxes. Theeost of tillage of a septarée of corn for the yearis twelve francs fOf the three ploughings.-He observes elsewhere:Three ploughings at the above rate, or by hand and hoe, (the instrumentis a powerful two-pronged fork bent, called bigarre,) six men forthe first going over, three for the second, and two for the third-theseptar.é'C, in one day, undâstood. It is necessary to manure the grouoo:every three years at the rate of about twenty-nine francs the septarée.'l'he (airs of Franoe, on Iookillg ovêr the lists,are very few comparathre~yfor so large a country. In regard to meat-market, gTass-veal issold hereat Christmas, also lamb. Mutton, good; beef~ not so. GoodVOl. II.2 B