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Soi. cone. — Verfon .—Rent in common, 35 to 50 livres, of the belt 60 livres the fe*tcrce. Produce, ten to twelve pieces, and to twenty-two.-Account here.

Rent,

60 livres

Tailles, about

12

Vingtienne,

5

Labour,

40

Props,

6 1 of.

Vintage,

33

156 10

Produce, 11 pieces, at 20 liv. 220 liv.Expences, - - 156

Profit, - - 64

Price, 220 liv. (9I. 6s, 4d. per En^lifhacre).

They renew fome of the vines every year, by laying down fhoots, called generallyprcvins, but here fauffes, five hundred per annum, at 50/i the hundred. They ma-nure to the amount of thirteen fmall cart loads, not reckoned in the above account.Twenty people necefiary for gathering an arpent, at 1 2/. a day, and food. Vinesare fometimes much damaged by frofts in the ipring.

Berry.— Vatan. —No props; give four hoeings. Faujfe 1 livre 1 cf the hundred.Rarely let. Produce, three pieces per feteree, fome fix or eight; price now 24 livres. Rent,60 livres. Produce, i63 livres (61. 13s. lod. per Englifh acre.) To plant a feteree,for fetting only, 45 livres to 48 livres; for two years produces nothing; the third alittle. All agree it is the molt profitable hufbandry, if one be not obliged to fell in thevintage, for want of capital to keep the wine.

Chateauroux. —Very few let. Earth them four times. Produce, 3 poingons, orpieces, a feteree. Rent, 60 livres.

Argenton. —Produce five or fix pieces the feteree, each piece 160 bottles. Plantedabout two feet fix inches fquare. U e props of quartered oak.

Ouecy. — Brine . —A journal one-fourth of a feteree, 0.4132 (Pauflon.) In a goodyea*r produce two muids, of two hundred and forty-two pints of two bottles, but notgeneral. Price, 3 to 6 f. the pint. Labour, 15 livres, vintage excluded.

Pont de Rodez. —The plants at four feet fquare ; very old and large. Every wherequite clean, and in fine order, worked four times. Price, 6 livres for ninety-fix Parispints. Cartona about half an acre.

Pellecoy. —Pafs vineyards, of which there are many fo fteep, that it is flrange, howmen can Hand at their work. One-third of the country under vines, which are plant-ed on abfolute rocks, but calcareous.

Cahors . —Nineteen-twentieths under vines; in regular rows, at four feet; manymore than two hundred years old. The true vin de Cahors , which has a great reputa-tion, is the produdl of a range of rocky vineyards, that are upon hills hanging to thefouth, and is called grave wine, becaufe of the ftoney foil. Much fubjedt to ftorms ofhail. Meafure the feteree, not quite an arpent. Produce, four barriques, each twohundred and ten common bottles. Price, 50 livres; fometimes at 20 or 30 livres ;and if two or three plentiful years together, the price of the wine does not exceed thecafk; lafl year 12 livres; 50 livres the barrique, is 3 livres the dozen. Price, 800livres, the meafure (33I. 18s. id. per Englifh acre) ; fome at 150 livres (61.6s. iod.);alfo at 300 livres (12I. 13s. 8d.). Labour, exclufive of vintage, 30 livres (il. 5s. 4d.)Their wines all bear the fea well. The inhabitants and proprietors have little to do inthe wine trade ; dealers buy up for the merchants at BourJeaux, who mix thefe wines