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 means that can be taken; every weed that 

 is picked up in the vineyards, every blade 

 of grafs that arifes, is faved with as much 

 care as the grapes, and given to the cows. 

 All which fyftem of management, with the 

 prodigious quantity of labour neceflary in 

 dreffing and gathering, explains the reafon 

 why wine countries mud necefTarily be po- 

 pulous. There is fuck a demand for all 

 forts of labourers, men, women and chil- 

 dren, that it would be furprifmg if they did 

 increafe. 



Dung is, however, fometimes laid on in 

 March, but it is not reckoned fo proper for 

 that work as Autumn ; the quantity is the 

 fame at either feafon. Some vignerons lay 

 it on in Summer, which is not fuppofed to 

 be a bad practice. Over dunging they 

 reckon prejudicial to vines, caufmg them to 

 run too much to wood, giving the wine a 

 heavinefs, and making it apt to grow mo- 

 .thery. Bpt this depends on the foil j for 

 fome lands are fo deficient in natural fertility, 

 that, unlefs they are dunged more than 

 commonly, they will not yield a crop : they 

 lay a thoufand bafkets on fuch, and fome- 

 times even fo far as twelve hundred. He 



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