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cites a similar strain of remark. The school of Bazin practices a nine-year 

 rotation : 1, weeded plants ; 2, vetches or annual forage-plants ; 3, wheat 

 and oats, with sainfoin; 4 and 5, sainfoin; 6, wheat; 7, sainfoin or 

 clover ; 8, colza and leguminous crops ; 9, wheat. The school of Royat 

 has radically changed its system, greatly reducing its annual crops and 

 enlarging its scope of viticulture. At least 100 acres of vineyard have 

 been planted with the common Burgundy stocks, the vines being suffi- 

 ciently distant from each other to admit of thorough plow-culture. Large 

 gardens are maintained in high efficiency by irrigation at all seasons. 

 The school of Puilboreau also devotes special attention to the vine. 



The following facts have been compiled from the report of Inspector- 

 General Zielinski, whose jurisdiction embraces seven schools in the 

 northwestern departments : 



Schools. 



Kerwazek-Trevarez 



Grand-Resto 



Trois-Croix 



Rieflfelland 



Saint-Gildas-de-Bois 



Saut-Gautier 



Iia Pilletidre 



Department. 



FinistSre 



Morbihan 



Ille-et-Vilaine ... 

 Loire-Inferieure . 



do 



Ome 



Sarthe 



17-fl3 

 17-28 

 17-23 

 16-22 

 16-19 

 15-23 

 18-30 



The school of Kerwazek-Trevarez has a working-capital of $68 per 

 acre, upon which a return of nine per cent, has been realized. The lead- 

 ing industry is stocli-raising, for the support of which a seven-years' 

 rotation is pursued, as follows : 1. Weeded plants or buckwheat. 

 2 and 3. Clover. 4. Cereals. 5. Annual forage-plants. 6. Cereals. 

 7. Stolen crops. A large area of natural and artificial meadow is main- 

 tained. The school of Grand-Resto was located three years ago in the 

 midst of a rude population that does not speak the French language, 

 and to whom a systematic and scientific culture is entirely unknown. 

 From this class of people, destitute of schools, it is difficult to obtain a 

 sufficient number of pupils prepared by previous instruction to under- 

 take the course of study. Sixty pupils of the neighboring lyceum of 

 Pontivy pursue the labors of cultivation. A capital of $04 per acre is 

 invested, and will be augmented according to the necessities of recu- 

 perative and intensive culture. The new methods are annually' in- 

 creasing the crops, while they diminish the cost of production. The 

 school of Trois-Croix follows a six-years' rotation, viz : 1. Weeded crops. 

 2. Spring grain. 3. Clover and beans. 4. Oats following clover, and 

 wheat following beans. 5. Colza, with half manuring^ followed by buck- 

 wheat. 6. Wheat. This exhaustive culture is supported by the manure 

 of a large number of farm animals, and yields large returns. The work- 

 ing capital amounts to $88 per acre, yielding nine per cent. A neighbor- 

 ing normal school sends its pupil-teachers weekly to visit the farm-school 

 and to inspect its methods and results. The school of Rieffelland; for- 

 merly an appendage to the regional high school of Grand Jouan, follows 

 two independent systems of rotation suited to its different classes of 

 lands. 



