Statistics. 
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Goats, 
Pigs. 
Poultry, 
Honey and 
wax, 
Woods and 
forests. 
TLO FRANCE. 
of sheep in Franteis estimated at 30,307,728 : the total 
of the wool they yield may be rated at 106,770,000 lib. 
There are a vast number of goats in France, princi- 
pally, of course, in the mountainous districts. Pigs 
are chiefly fed in the neighbourhood of woods, or where 
grain abounds, as Normandy, Champagne, Limosin, 
&c. They are also fed on acorns; and, in the Limo- 
sin, on chesnuts. Aa Leptin all of 
Immense quantities are in all parts 
France ; to coh an one, ina that it is a question 
whether there is more weight of mutton consumed, or 
of poultry. They are of an excellent quality. Great 
ns are taken in rearing and fattenin In 
rench Flanders, as well as in other districts, they are 
fed with the flour of buck wheat, or rye, or potatoes: 
their food is frequently changed; and the vessel into 
which ape et as is washed hen: apkag Pon 
every repast. After feeding, are in darkness 
till the next meal.’ In een whet ies called ver- 
miculaires are expressly kept for them ; that is, places 
in which worms for their food are collected 
served. Capons are fattened in many parts of the 
dom : those which are fattened at ieuz, a town 
in the department of the Charente, are so much esteem- 
ed, that they are sent to Paris for those who keep the 
most delicate tables. 
Narbonne honey is much celebrated, but it is not the 
ce of the neighbourhood of that place ; at least it 
is seldom to be procured there: what is so called is 
more commonly, as well as much more abundantly, 
| - esne at Perpignan. The bees wax of Champagne, 
ormandy, Sologne, Languedoc, Auvergne, it- 
tany, is es the best. Bleaching wax is a busi- 
ness of. importance in France. The yellow wax of 
Brittany bleaches. with the most ease, and becomes a 
beautiful white: it is principally bleached at Chateau 
Goutier, about eight leagues from Angers. By some, 
this is esteemed the very best in the kin 3; by 
others, that of Champagne is preferred. wax of 
Amboise, and of Chaumont near Troyes, is of an infe- 
rior quality ; and that made at Rouen is esteemed the 
worst, on account of the large quantity of suet they 
add to it. At Montpellier, there is a large manufac- 
ture of bees wax, and the process is conducted with 
great attention and skill. 
d'asthey hav always been of great iportanee, bot 
and as e always im ce, 
on aceount of the fuel they supply, and of their appli- 
eation to other purposes, many ions and conjec- 
tures have been made with respect to the surface which 
they cover. The Marquis de Mirabeau ts them 
as 30,000,000 arpents ; in this opinion M. coin- 
cides. By the author of the Credit National, they are 
reckoned so low as'6,000,000 arpents. Mr Young en- 
deavours to determine this fact by two methods ; by 
the of Cassini and by the consumption of the peo- 
gato dhy the first method, he makes the extent of wood 
about 19,000,000 arpents, or one-seventh of the king- 
dom ; by the other method, he finds, that the quantity 
of wood is about 20,800,000 arpents ; the mean of the 
two results which he thus obtains is 19,850,515. We 
have already observed, however, that his estimate is 
—- , at least it is above that of the committee of the 
first National Assembly, which reckons the wood only at 
13,100,691 arpents. Mr Young, in his calculation, 
reckons the annual value of the woods to be about 
12 millions sterling, the rent being taken at 12s. per 
acre. 
Some of the forests are very extensive, particularly 
that is to say, the diocese of 
In another place he says, it extended from the 
of the Rhine, and the country of Treves, to that of the 
Nervii, that is Hainault, Cambresis, feeeth Seon 
ders, comprehending 50,000 paces in . | Thi 
rest has been cut down in a great many places, especially . 
towards itsextremities: however, it still extends over the 
greater part y 
ern of the bishopric of Liege, and of the 
ft icceenied since neni 
with sev i ions. It was re- 
nowned for events of chivalry. The forest of Fontaine- ,, , 
Oaadiana ot pout verbolng mareaiegten, am 
|,424 acres i I 
where the trees have been cut down. : 
The wood of France may be divided into six classes : 
1. For ship-building. 2. For the use of house carpen- 
Sg” 5 For nego bfec ta Cake they 
joi . §. For vine . For fuel. is chi 
ail REP oa for the.second, oak, fir, linden, 
and trees ; for the third, ash, oak, er a fe 
eci elm; for the fourth, fir, beech, a 
tree, cherry tree, cornil tree, aspen, poplar, i 
den, &c. ; for the fifth, osiers, and branches of different 
= that Seay are pele divided ge new an 
old, and is distingui names, bois perdu, boi: 
carnard, and bois pore aaA cork-tree flourishes on 
the French side of the Pyrenees, and produces very 
fine cork-wood. 
Under the old government, the national forests em= y,,:0.,.) 
braced 3,000,000 arpents, and gave about 12,000,000 forests, 
franks to the royal treasury. the Revolution, all 
the forests formerly held by the corporate bodies and the 
emigrants were annexed to those of the state, which 
thus were increased to upwards of 4,000,000 
These, added to the forests in Belgium, and on the left 
added to the national domains, and declared inalienable. 
In the year 1800 the national forests were thenceforward 
exempted from the land tax. The Revolution did not 
ish the laws under which the private 
—— ose woodlands epee be agi 2 to 
ws, vernment appointed persons, who were 
perjedgvexttuhip timber, to examine a Green: 
and to mark such trees as they deemed fit for their pur- 
pose, after which —_ etor durst not lay the axe 
to the roots of them. Besides, no individual proprietor 
of woodland could cut down his timber, or clear his land, 
under a hea ity, without making, six months 
previously, a tion of his intention to one of the 
conservators, whose report determines the government 
either to grant or refase permission to that effect. 
