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gOO SECOND JOURNEY THROUGHFRANCE IN 1814.·one of the inexplicables ofthis country,whel'etheycan p08siblylind. anthe 'manure they·employ, with t!heir slendermeans oFprovldihgit. Livestock, it is seen, i5 not to be lakeninto i accountnere. ffhe country 18traversed byBocks during thewinter, and dairies ~are insomedegreeattended to, but neither claimany place in uccounts. 'l'he oH!ve,indee~,18 an important article, and'requiresa placefuHy toitself, altbouglr j;tI]as been hitherto excluded,as it sèemsto be a matter of ju!stifiabledoubt how farit can hold a p)aceunder theheadofagricultuFalprofits:but be this as it ma}', that it i5 of thenrst COFlsequence'ia statiistiics,.frol'llthe money it brings intothe country, adroits Df no dell1Ur, and assu·chit will ibe now proceeded to.The OLIvE.-Here are three or four different kinds of olives. rrhistreebears but once in two years. In the bearing year,'anolive4reewillyield from one to two andeven thl.hundred weight; towlt1ich weightthe oil expresscd bears the proportion of one eighth.The ordinary rneasurei5 a ql~artain, or twenty-two pounds (SOtlle say twenty--one). Sixhundred trees in one plantation yielded, this year, on JIn average,'iftecnpounds of fruit pertree,taking in the number, young plants put dO'''hto replace decay, and the bearers of the former yeal"s deficÎ'ency: sothat this may be considered an average valuation. The foregoingitnakesnine thousand pounds weight: but another plaI1tation yielded bùtfivet'hausand pounds, of an equal number of trees.A good tree, ho'Wever,", ~n yield three quartains, or sixty-three pounds. 'llhe qum'tain malteski!}.ds of potatoes (tbat root formerly so despised), in the §ihort ti.roe it. has yettaken IIp thesubject. Of these one hundred appear distinct species, and thirty are recommended for superiormerit.* The best dairy cows come fromthe district of La Caune. They séll veryhigh: A cowthathasnewly calved fetches From two hundred.and-{orty tofwo hundred-and~1iftyrralÎcs, 'theyyield,per day, in Sllmmer, seven, eight, or nine pots of milk :-theJ,0i cJf eighty cubic Închesl fivei·nchesby fourdimensions.;