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Their products of wheat are, from, 

 one and an half to two and an half. 

 What manure they raife is all laid on 

 for this crop ; and the very beft manage- 

 ment will not carry this product to more 

 than three quarters. The farms are, in ge- 

 neral, rented by tenants, fome of whom pay 

 their landlords in kind ; a circumftance I 

 little expected to find an inftance of fo foon 

 in France : the more general method, how- 

 ever, is, thatof a pecuniary rent. As toleafes, 

 they have none, being all tenants at will. 

 The vineyards are chiefly in the hands of 

 the gentlemen, who moftly live at Metz, 

 and the people who cultivate them are in 

 the worft circumftances of any in the coun- 

 try; the wine is but a poor vin-dupays, 

 which anfwers nothing but their limited 

 home-confumption : the nett profit does 

 not exceed 3!. los. an acre. The nett pro- 

 duce of wheat is reckoned il. 8s. per acre, 

 or 148. per annum : that of barley, 95. of 

 oats, 75. 6d. and of peafe about as much 

 as barley. There are a few turneps, but 

 miferably cultivated ; and fome clover, but 

 it is not fown till the land is fo exhaufted, 

 that the farmer does not think it worth the 



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