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of wheat, two quarters and a half; barley, 

 two; beans, three; and oats, four. They 

 give no culture to their beans. The tythe 

 is every where taken in kind ; which, with 

 taxes, and the corvie, are very oppreffive 

 to the farmers. M. Renne thinks, that, in 

 thefe diftri&s, they do not make more than 

 6 or 8 per cent, intereft for their money ; 

 that is, for all the films they employ on 

 their farms $ but good farmers will make 

 10, and a few, fomething more : yet they 

 fcldom get rich. They are principally te- 

 nants at will, and therefore have no induce- 

 ment to work any great improvements, had 

 they the money. As to cattle, they keep 

 none, but what is connected with their 

 teams, which are all oxen ; a draught they 

 much prefer to that of horfes. The largeft 

 farms are found about La Garde and Blan- 

 ken, where each farmer has a tract of wafte 

 land, on which he keeps fheep and young 

 cattle. Their flocks, fome of them rife to 

 five, or fix hundred ; the whole benefit of 

 which is, the fold and the wool. The 

 wool of one (heep is valued at about 8d. to 

 is. The fort is coarfe. Manuring by the 

 fold they prefer to any other fort. At 

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