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 fame grounds as the mulberry plantations. 

 An acre of good vines, well managed, yields 

 a nett profit to the proprietor of about 

 3!. i os. Lucern is very much cultivated 

 here -, they fow it on a clean fallow with 

 buck-wheat, or barley, and it lafts twenty 

 years in good heart $ fome fields of it are 

 thirty years old, and fome of the farmers 

 efteem it quite a perpetual crop : they mow 

 it five or fix times in a year, at each of 

 which mowings the crop is very large : they 

 reckon an acre will maintain five mules 

 through the Summer, and all Winter long 

 there is fome pafturage in it for fheep. 

 They efteem it more than any other crop, 

 and think that their hufbandry, in general, 

 would be greatly diflrefled if it was not for 

 it. There is a little fainfoine on the hills ; 

 but it is not near fo much efteemed as lu- 

 cern. They have vaft droves of fwine in 

 parts of this country, which are fed very 

 much on chefnuts : indeed, there are many 

 of the poor people who have had little othe f 

 food, fince corn has been fo much dearer 

 than it formerly was ; and, notwithftand- 

 ing the richnefs of the vales, and the fine- 

 nefs of the climate in this part of France, 



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