32 TfcAVELS THROUGH 



Ms anfwers, I collected the following par-*' 



ticulars : 



The extenfive vale, from Dieuze to 

 Mouen and Nancy, hy Eynville and Lun* 

 neville, is, in general, a corn country, 

 with a good many inclofures, near towns 

 and villages; but otherwife confifting of 

 open fields, wherein the farmers are tied 

 down in their culture to the common ma* 

 nagement of their neighbours about Moyen~ 

 vie ; this is, fallowing for wheat, then fow* 

 Ing barley, and then fallow again ; in which 

 method wheat yields ufually two quarters 

 and a half an acre, and barley about two : 

 rents are, from 75. to us. an acre, but 

 rarely more than 95. or los. The farms, 

 are fmalf, and the farmers in very mean 

 circumftances. In the diftri&s of Ley and 

 Moncour, their mode is different, and 

 reckoned much more fuccefsful : it is, fal- 

 lowing for wheat, then taking barley, then 

 beans, and, laftly, oats ; after which they 

 fallow again : the land is the fame, but the 

 crops are better, and the farmers richer. 

 This muft be owing to having four crops to 

 2 fallow inflead of but two; the products 



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