NEW VAI,UATION OF UNBUU^T ON LAND 



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The moors are particularly extensive in the south. To this region in- 

 deed belong the 9 departments, each of which has more than 200,000 ha. 

 of moorland, making in all 2,525,904 ha. or 35.05 % of the total moorland 

 area. 



We find the largest areas of meadows, permanent grass and grazing- 

 grounds in two groups of departments, the first consisting of Manche, Ome 

 and Calvados, the second of Cantal, Saone-et-Loire and Puy-de-D6me. The 

 area of the meadows in these departments is 1,384,528 ha., which is 20.03% 

 ©f the total area of the groups. 



The departments in which the area cultivated as \dneyard is most consid- 

 erable also form two groups, one consisting of Herault, Aude, Gard, Pyre- 

 nees-Orientales and Var, the other of Gironde and Charente-Inferieure. In 

 these departments there are altogether 691,388 ha. of vineyar.:, 46.13% 

 of the total area of the land under vines, of w^hich there is none in 8 de- 

 partments, that is to say ; Calvados, C6tes-du-Nord, Finistere, Manche, 

 Nord, Ome, Pas-de-Calais and Somme. 



2nd., Rental Value. — The 2,084,631,537 fr., which the new valuation 

 gives as the total rental value, is distributed as follows, among the various 

 types of holdings : 



Types of Eoldings 



Rental Value 



of 

 Each Group 



Proportion 



of the Rental Value 



of Each Group 



to the Total 



Rental Value 



of the Holdings 



Arable I,and 



Meadows, Natural Grass, Permanent Grass and 

 Grazing Grounds 



Woodlands, Alder Plots, Willow-Plots, Osier- 

 Holts etc 



Vineyards 



Gardens other than Pleasure Gardens and I^and 

 used for Market Gardening, Floriculture and 

 Ornamental Gardening, Nursery Gardens etc. . 



Orchards and Farms for the Cultivation of Fruit 

 Trees and Fruit Bearing Shrubs 



Yards, Depositing Sites, Building Sites, Private 

 Roads etc 



Pleasure Grounds, Parks, Gardens, Sheets of 

 Water etc 



Moors, Commons, Heaths, Marshes, Waste lyand etc. 



Railways, Navigable Canals and Dependent Areas . 



I^kes, Pools, Ponds, Horse-Ponds, Fountains etc., 

 Canals not for Navigation and Dependent Areas, 

 Brine Pits and Salt Mashes 



Quarries, Slate Quarries, Sand Pits, Peat Moss 

 Bogs etc 



Total 



6,050,586 

 680,819 



2,084,631,537 



0.29 



0.03 



