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Milanese. — Milan to Pavia. —The crops are—Wheat, feven or eight feeds. — Rye ,eleven feeds.—Maize, forty feeds.—Ditto quarantino, twenty feeds.—Millet , fiftyfeeds.

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Piedmont. — Chentale.— A country proverb in this country is, that a good pe-afamfliould finilh his wheat fowing by the 19th of Oftober. After hemp, clover, or fallow,■wheat vields forty to forty-five mina per giornata, each mina forty-five pounds to fifty-two pounds, average forty-feven pounds, and the common price 3 livres to 3 livres 10fbut at prefent 3 livres 1 $f. But, including good and bad farmers, and all foils, theproduce is not more than twenty-four mina: that is, twelve for the landlord and twelvefor the tenant. They fow four to four and a half; the common produce is, therefore,fix times the feed, which is miferable; the better crops between ten and eleven feeds.Allowing for the Piedmont pound, being about one-tenth heavier than the Englifh(though only of twelve ounces), and that the giornata is not equal to an acre, theirbelt crops, at forty-two or forty-three mina, will be near five quarters per Englifh acre;and their average near three; which are not greater than might be expe&ed. Theirquantity of feed appears, however, to be immenfe, for it amounts to one hundred andninety-nine pounds per giornata, which is extravagant: and makes it fufpicious, thatthe giornata here is larger that the legal giornata of the principality.

Savigliano. —They fow here, of wheat, three and a half eymena, and reap eight timesas much, in a good crop.

Turin . —They fow five mina, or nine rabbii, and ten pounds to the giornata; of ryeand oats, the fame quantity; of hemp, three mina; maize, one-half; millet, one-half. Wheat produces twenty-five mina ; or five times the feed ; rye, thirty; maize,fifty to feventy; millet, twenty. The mina at forty-five pounds the crop of wheat isabout five and a half coombs per Englifh acre. For their land and climate, a mifer-able crop ; but as good, or better, than they deferve, when their courfe of crops isconfidered.

Milanese.— Mozzata. —Produce of wheat, eight ftajo per pertica on the bell land;five on middling; and three on the worft.

There is a Angular neglett in keeping wheat in this country: being fhewed the grana-ries at two houfes, in which the quantity was confiderable, I was furprized to find that,where fome of the windows were open, the room flunk very much ; the feent particu-lar; and examining the wheat, I found the furface all either covered, even to fhining,with the webs of the wevils, or elfe in ropes, hanging together by it, and the fliesbufy; the wheat was two or three feet thick, and had not been ftirred. In a thirdgranary, to which I went for fatisfying my curiofity, in the hands of the owner, (forthe other two belonged to noblemen, and were managed by intendants,) I found in thefame condition; and all agreed, that to ftir the wheat is bad, as it makes the wholeheap alike; whereas, by not moving it, the furface only fuffers. On this, I thru ft myarm into the heap, to examine the interior, which all flunk dreadfully. Perhaps nei-ther the wevil, nor any other infett, may live deep in the heap; but, for want of air-ing, the wheat (links; not to mention the furface, which is a lofs of fiye or fix percent. A mofl barbarous fyflem of management. It is worth remarking, that the onlygood way of keeping wheat is in the ftraw: flacks fhould be built on capt ftones, tokeep vermin out, and the corn thrafhed as wanted.

Mozzata.— The produft here, on three divifions of foil, are, per pertica, the mea-sure the ftajo,-—

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