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Clover.
Piedmont.— Chentale. —Such is the power of climate united with the advantages of, irrigation, that clover is here mown for hay once after harvefting the corn it grew with ;the hay is not of the belt quality, but ufeful.
Milanese. — Milan to Pavia. —On the rich dairy farms, the cows are fed much onclover. The red fort is fown, which wearing out, white clover comes fo regularly, thatthe country people think the one fort degenerates into the other.
Vicenza . —They fow twelve pounds of feed per campo with wheat; it is cut twice thefirfl: year, yielding one carro each cut; the fecond year it is mown thrice: per 44 livresthe carro, which is one hundred pefi, of twenty-five pounds.
Padua. —Sow twelve pounds grojfo per campo (fourteen pounds or fifteen pounds per-Englifhacre) it gives three carri, each onethoufand pounds, at three cuts (one ton anda half the acre Englifh;) but they have crops that go much beyond this.
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Figs.
Piedmont. — Nice to Coni. —On this range of the Alps, there are, in favourable fitu-ations, a great quantity of fig trees ; and the extreme cheapnefs of the fruit muff be ofno trivial importance in fupporting the people, not only while ripe but dried.
Piedmont. — Chentale. —A giornata (to an acre as 7440 to 7929) produces two hun-dred pounds for the proprietor, and as much for the farmer; and fome crops rife to fix hun-dred and fifty pounds. They gather the female hemp from the 25th of July to the 4th ofAuguft: the male the beginning of September. Of fome pieces I was informed that a pro-duce not uncommon was thirty rubbii of female, and feventeen of male, worth 4! livres to5 livres the rubbio, both of the fame price; and alfo twenty-five to thirty mine of feed,if well cultivated ; but if not, twelve to fifteen. The mine thirty-five pounds, and theprice 4J livres to 5 livres the mine. The common calculation is, that a giornata is worth150 livres to aoo livres, which may be called 10I. per Englifii acre. Their contrivancefor fleeping is very funple and effectual: there are many fquare and oblong pits withpofis in them, with open tnordfes for fixing poles to keep down the hemp, which isvaftly preferable to our fods and (tones.
Turin ■ —They fow three mine (forty-five pounds of wheat) and get thirty rubbii, at4 livres 1 of. 104 livres the rubbio grofs; but ready for fpinning 12 livres 10 f. thefineft ; the fecond quality is 7 livres 10 f.; and the third 5 livres ; befides three mineof feed, at 2 livres each. This product is above 81. the Englifh acre.
Milanese. — Mozzata. —Winter flax is here efleemed the properer for land that isnot watered; they fow it in the middle of September ; they have had it in this countrytwo years only, and call it lino ravagno. It gives a coarfer thread than fpring flax, buta greater quantity, and much more feed. The price of the oil 22 ,f. the pound, of twen-ty eight ounces ; of the flax ready for fpinning, 2 $f. or 2 5 f .; of the thread, 4 livresand 45 livres. A quartaro of feed is lieceflary for a pertica, for which it returns eighttimes the quantity of feed, and twenty pounds of flax ready for fpinning, at 2$f. thepound.
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