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island and engage in the cultivation of both cotton and tobacco, for 

 which the climate and soil of the country are believed to be peculiarly 

 adapted. 



PHiLADELrniA, Septemhcv 28. 1874. 



Dear Sir : I am requested to inform yon that the seeds of Virginia and Maryland to- 

 bacco, which your Departmeut sent to Madame Emilia de Augeli, some four years ago, for 

 planting in Corsica, have produced most gratifying results. The seeds were sown upoa 

 the estates of M. Jean de Peraldi, Baron de Comnene, and in the district of Vico, lying 

 near the sea. From March to June two crops or cuts were obtained, and the third 

 crop was well up, but did not come to perfection. Potatoes aud beans were afterwards 

 planted on the tobacco fields, aud produced an excellent crop. The Corsicans, how- 

 ever, do not understand well the art of dressing the tobacco produced. Cotton does 

 not seem to have proved so great a success ; probably because the cultivation was not 

 well understood. In order, however, to stimulate the ciiltivation of both cotton and 

 tobacco, Baron Peraldi authorizes me to inform your Department that he would will- 

 ingly give a small tract of laud on his estates in and around Vico to any Americans 

 who, understanding the management of these products, would go out to Corsica aud 

 settle, he, of course, being prepared to provide for them until such time as they could, 

 by means of their own industry in raising these staples, provide for themselves. 

 Very resi^ectfully, 



CHARLES H. A. ESLING, 

 Ayentforthe De AngeVi Estates, 208 South Fourth St., FhilacklpMa, Pa. 



The Commissioner of Agriculture. 



FACTS rR031 OFFICIAL SOURCES. 



British mors. — The London Agricultural Gazette publishes state- 

 ments, founded upon letters received from 273 correspondents in differ- 

 ent localities of England, Scotland, and Ireland, giving the condition of 

 the crops on the 1st of August. Of these, 183 represent the condition 

 of wheat as above average, 83 average, and 7 below average. Last 

 year, of 257 similar reports to the same journal, only 11 were above av- 

 erage, 89 were average, and 157 below. The spring grains of 1874 were 

 inferior to those of the previous year. In Great Britain the prospect of 

 more than half the acreage in barley, oats, aud pease was below average 

 and a third, lull average. 



French farmers. — The British Blue Book for 18G9 shows that the 

 total number of French agiiculturists was 7,333,259, of whom 5,875,945 

 were land proprietors, and 1,457,314 were landless. Of the proprietors, 

 5G,G39 cultivated their own estates, 1,754,934 (small farmers) cultivate 

 their own lauds, 1,987, ISG cultivate their owu land besides laboring on 

 adjoining estates ; G48,83G farmers and proprietors ; 293,860 metayers 

 and proprietors; 1,134,490 laborers and proprietors. Of the non-propri- 

 etors, 38G,533 were farming rented land, 201,527 were metayers, farming 

 lauds for a share of the produce, 809,254 day laborers. The agricultural 

 laud proprietors coustitute one-seventh of the entire population, and 80 

 per cent, of the entire agricultural adult male population. 



Austro-Hungarian crops. — Leading statisticians estimate that of 

 3,329,800 arpeuts uuder cultivation in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 

 1,306,000 arpents have yielded crops above average, 1,377,000 arpents 

 full average, and 586,000 arpents below. Hungary has made better 

 crops than the Cis-Leithaa provinces. 



English CtA3IE-laws. — Statistics laid before a parliamentary com- 

 mission show that during the past four years in England and Wales 

 the convictions for violations of game-laws have averaged, per annum, 



