young’s TRAVELS IN FRANCE.

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Turin . —In fome arable land I viewed, a few miles from this capital, the followingmoll extraordinary courfe was purfued, and was mentioned to me as being not uncom-mon ; i. maize ; 2. wheat; 3. wheat; 4. wheat; 5. maiz ; 6. wheat; 7. wheat;8. wheat.

The year of maize being confidered as fuch a preparation, as to allow of three fuc-ceffive crops of wheat. The practice however is barbarous. Upon the farm of Sig.Briolo, the following is the courfe ;—1. maize; 2. wheat; 3. rye , and when the landwants repofe, clover is fown upon a fmall part.

Vercelli. —Upon good wheat land ;—1. maize ; 2. wheat; 3. wheat; 4. rye. Andin the rice grounds •,— 1. fallow ; 2. rice ; 3. rice ; 4. rice. They have here an excel-lent pradtice, and it extends, more or lefs, over all Piedmont, which is to mow cloverby the 10th of May, and to plow the land and plant maize, which fucceeds greatly afterclover.

Milanese. — Milan. —The arable lands never repofe; but a quick fucceflion isreaped. Two crops of bread corn are gained in one year, by fowing maize in July, afterwheat.

Milan to Pavia. —The courfe common in the rice grounds is,— 1. rice; 2. rice;

3. rice ; 4. fallow', and dung; 5. wheat, clover fown, either with it in autumn, or uponit in fpring; the former belt ; 6. clover; 7. clover ; 8-clover; 9. flax, and then milletthe fame year : and then rice again as above.

Alfo,—1. wheat; 2. clover; 3. clover; 4. clover; 5. clover; 6. flax, and thenmaize; '/. wheat, and clover again. Sometimes after flax, colefeed for oil. Anothercourfe,— 1, 2, 3. clover; 4. maize; 5. rice; 6. rice ; 7.rice; 8. fallow'; 9. corn andclover.

In the Pavefe. — 1. Rye, and then fallowed for, 2. w'heat, fown with clover in Febru-ary, mown with the Rubble, and then fed ; 3. clover ; 4. clover; 5. clover; 6. flax,and then millet; or inflead of both maize; 7. wheat; 8. wheat, and left then fome-times to pallurage under clover.

Mozzata. — A courfe common here, — 1. clover; 2. winter flax; 3. lupines; 4. maize,,for forage; 5. colefeed ; 6. cabbages ; 7. panic ; 8. hemp; 9. beans. This courfe willbe found to occupy about twelve pertiche in one hundred, and to pafs in fucceflion overthe whole, for the benefit of variation. Another,— 1. wheat, and millet after; 2. com-mon maize; 3. wheat and millet; 4. common maize; 5. rye and quarantino; 6. com-mon maize; 7. rye and quarantino; 8. common maize. The afliduity with whichthey avoid a fallow, deferves attention, and it is here effected, as in the fouth of France ,by means of a plant that is afferted b.y many to exhauft.

Lodizan. — 1 Wheat, fown in October and reaped in June, and the land ploughedthrice and manured for 2. wheat again, and clover, called fpianata agojlano, which isfed till the following fpring, but fometimes ploughed the end of autumn; 3. flax

4. millet. Another courfe, called coltura maggenga, — 1. break up the layer for flax ;2. millet; 3. maize ; 4. wheat, the ftubble of which remains in fpianato agojlano.

Cremonefe. — 1. Wheat, fown in October, and reaped in June, the ftubble ploughedthrice for 2. wheat, upon which fow clover the end of February; 3. clover, ploughedin November for, 4. flax, and then millet; 5. maize; 6. wheat.

Carpianefe. — 1. Maize ; 2. wheat, fown in the fpring with clover, which is mown withthe ftubble, and remains fpianata agojlana; 3. clover ; 4. flax, and then millet; 5. rice;6. rice ; 7. rice.

Venetian State. — Bergamo . —The land here is conftantly cropped,—1. wheat;2. clover, mown in the fpring once, in time for maize; 3. wheat; 4. clover. Alfo,—

i- clover,,