34 TRAVELS THROUGH 

 Arracour, there are fome men who have 

 made a confiderable profit by fowing buck 

 wheat on fandy loams, and not taking the 

 crop, but ploughing it in as a manure for 

 wheat. This is in inclofures, where the 

 right of commonage does not commence till 

 the laft day of Auguft, of the fallow years 5 

 before which they turn in the buck wheat, 

 where it rots and ferments, a-nd thereby 

 prepares well for the wheat feed. In this 

 method they get three, and fometimes 

 three and an half, quarters an acre, which 

 exceeds the common crops. 



This was the principal intelligence I 

 gained from M. Renne. I took my leave 

 of him in the afternoon, and reached Eyn- 

 ville that night. An agreeable little town, 

 fituatcd in the midfl of this fertile plain : 

 and quitting it next morning, the i6th, 

 for Lunneville, I remarked feveral inclo- 

 fures as I paHed, for a few miles, which 

 feemed to have the remains of a grafs-crop 

 I did not readily know; but, on enquiring, 

 found they were lucern fields. The far- 

 mers here keep the few inclofed fields they 

 have, as conflantly under lucern as they 

 can. Their method of conducting it feems 



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