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7. Maize, or Indian Corn 477 



8. Buckwheat 479 



9. Millet 479 



10. Clover 479 



TENTH REPORT. 



CXXVI. Crops, (continued.) , 481 



11. Lucern 481 



12. Sainfoin 482 



13. Beets. Beets for Sugar. 482 



14. Silk 488 



15. The Vine 496 



16. Olives 499 



CXXVII. General Views of French Agriculture 501 



CXXVIII. Farm near Versailles 502 



CXXIX. Farm Accounts 503 



CXXX. Agriculture of Belgium and Holland 506 



CXXXI. The Soil 507 



CXXXII. The Dikes and Polders 507 



CXXXIII. The Water Machinery or Mills 510 



CXXXIV. Flemish Agriculture 511 



CXXXV. The Soil ; and Size of Farms 513 



CXXXVI. The Cultivation of the Soil, Trenching, Ploughing, Ma 

 nuring 513 



1. Deep Cultivation 513 



2. Subsoiling 514 



3. Draining 515 



4. Mixing the Soil 516 



5. Rotation of Crops 516 



6. Manuring 518 



7. Liquid Manure 519 



8. Cleanness of Cultivation 521 



CXXXVII. Manures 522 



1. Mineral Manures 522 



2. Vegetable Manures 523 



3. Animal Manures 525 



4. Liquid Manures, and Means of saving them 529 



5. Compost Heaps, 531 



6. Jauffret s Manure 532 



7. General Remarks on Manures 533 



CXXXVIII. Crops 534 



1. Colza 534 



2. Navette 537 



3. Poppy 537 



