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Codogno . —When they break up their clover lands they fow flax on one ploughing,which is worth rent 20 livres and crop 40 livres per pertica , being twenty-four poundsof twenty-eight ounces and feed three times more than fown. Much winter flax nowgreen.
Venetian State. — Bergamo . —Winter flax green in Oftober.
Ecclesiastical State. - Bologna. —The territory of Bologna produces fromtwelve to fourteen million pounds of hemp. They manure for it highly with dung,feathers, the horns of animals, and (ilk-worms’ refufe. The bed hemp-land is alwaysdug ; the difference between digging and ploughing is found to be very great. Ifploughed, three earths are given; when the fpade is ufed, the land is firlt ploughedand then dug. For this crop five or fix yards are left unfown under the rows of trees.The foil agrees fo well with this plant that the crop rifes ten feet high; they gather itall at once, leaving only a few Hands for feed. It is watered in ftagnant pools. A goodproduct is from one hundred pounds to two hundred pounds of twelve ounces per tor-natura , or half an acre. The price of the bed is from 20 livres to 27 livres the hun-dred pounds. At prefent 25 livres (the Englifli pound one-fifth larger than the Bo-lognefe, and the livre of the Pope’s dominions is ten to the zeccbin , of 9s. 6d.) readyfor combing. When ready for fpinning, the price of the bed is 1 zf the pound ; andthey pay for fpinning fuch 6 f. to 15 f the pound. Near the city I viewed a field fa-mous for yielding hemp : no trees are planted acrofs it, which is fo common in thecountry in general; a fure proof of the pernicious tendency of that fydem ; fince invery valuable fields thefe people themfelves rejeft the method. Little or no hemp onthe hills near Bologna, but fome autumnal flax for family ufe.
Piedmont. — Chentale. —Maize produces here twenty-five to thirty ?»/»*, which holdsforty-leven pounds of wheat, and the price 2 livres each. It is fown on three feetridges.
Savigliano. —Maize , in a good year, will yield three hundred fold, but in a dry onefometimes fcarcely any thing.
T arin. —Made every where the fallow, which prepares for wheat.
Cbivafco to Verceil .—A great deal of maize through all this country, and all foulwith grals and weeds, even to the height of two or three feet.
Milanese. — Milan. —They fow much maize, of the fort called qaarantino, from itsripening in forty days (which however it does not). They fow it the middle of July,after wheat, which they cut the firlt week of that month. If the common maize werefown at this time, they alfert that it would- yield no ripe feed : this is a very curious cir-cumftance. The culture has been often recommended to England ; if ever anything were done, it mult affuredly be with this fort; but even with this I Ihould putno faith in the power of an Englilh climate.
Mozzata .—They cultivate three forts: —;. Formentone maggengo, fown the beginningof May, and reaped in October. 2. Formentone agojlano 0 formentone de ravettone^ be-caufe fown after taking off the rave or colefeed for oil, the end of May, and harveffedthe end of September. 3. Formentone quarantino, fown after wheat or rye, and cutthe end of October,
Venice. —This plant was cultivated in the Polefme de Rovigo, towards 1560; andfpread through Lombardy the beginning of the feventeenth century *. -
* Apjl, Gallo. . Notes, p. 534.
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