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I have referved this minute, from fome others of little confequence, for the oppor-tunity of remarking, that, in England, the old cuftom of feeding hogs with warm food,is totally difcontinued; but it well delerves experiment, whether it would not anfwerin fattening, and alfo in the nourifhment of fows and pigs. Such experiments are diffi-cult to make fatisfa&orily, but yet they ought to be made by fome perfons that are able.Warm food in winter, regularly given, I ffiould fuppofe, mult be more fattening thanthat which is cold, and, in bad weather, half frozen.

Chap. XXV .—Of the Culture of various Plants in France .

IN the courfe of my inquiries into the French agriculture, I made fome minutes onvarious articles, that do not merit a feparate chapter affigned to each ; I ffiall thereforeintroduce them to the reader alphabetically. It may be of ufe to future travellers toknow what articles are cultivated in that kingdom, that they may give to each fuch anattention as may fuit their purpofe.

Almonds.

Provence . — Ah .—More fubjeft to accidents than olives ; fometimes three, four,and five bad crops to one good. Olives flour in June, but almonds in February, andconfequently fubjeft to frofts. The produce of a good tree is commonly 3 Hvres.

Tour d’Aigues.— Do not yield a good crop oftener than once in ten years. Price, 36to 40 livres the quintal: four and a half quintals in the (hell yield one clean : the pricehas been 70 livres. Price of the piftachio almond, 6 livres the fifteen pound in the fhell.Some few fine almound trees will give a quintal in the fliell. They are a moll hazard-ous culture, by reafon of the fog that makes them drop; the wdhn that eats; and thefroft that nips.

Beans.

Soissonois.— Coucy.— In the rich lands cultivated, in the courfe of, r, beans; 2,wheat, remark now (O&ober 31) fome beautiful curled and luxuriant pieces of wheat,which, from the beans among it, appear to have been fown after this crop.

Artois. — Fillers to Bethune. —Many beans through all Artois, in drills at twelve orfourteen inches, very fine and very clean; the culture is as common and as good as inKent, and they have a much richer foil. Wheat is fown after muftard, flax, and beans;and is better after beans than after either of the other two crops.

Alsace . — Wiltenheim to Strajbourg. —Many pieces; good and very clean. Produce,fix facks (of one hundred and eighty pound of wheat) per arpent of 24,000 feet (twenty-eight bulhels per Englilh acre).

Schelejladt. — Produce, fix to eight facks, at 7 to 12 livres, (feven at 9 livres is 4I. 73.per Englilh acre).

The culture of beans is by no means fo common in France as it ought to be; theyare a very necefiary afliftance on deep rich foils in the great work of banilhing fallows;they prepare on fuch foils better than any other crop for wheat, and are of capital ufein Supporting and fattening cattle and hogs. • , .

Broom.

Bretagne. — Rennes . —The land left to it in the common courfe of crops. It is cutfor faggots ; fold to the bakers, &c.

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