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AN AGRICULTURAL FAGGOT. 



Wheat, barley, oats, and rye are grown to a greater or 

 less extent all over France, but many of the other crops 

 are only partially distributed. Thus, maize is to be 

 found in little more than half of the eighty-seven depart- 

 ments, and in only about one-fourth can it be said to be 

 extensively cultivated. Buckwheat is mainly grown in 

 the North-west, although there are but few departments 

 without some land under that crop. Hops, which are 

 confined in the United Kingdom to eight counties, are in 

 France grown in eleven departments, although 97 per 

 cent, of the whole crop is to be found in the three depart- 



1 Great Britain only. 



Mangold. 



8 In 1892. Including olives, almonds, mulberries, chestnuts, 

 etc. 



