1839] 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



intj the lot, where the wall was to be built. At 

 every stake showing where a tree was to be af- 

 terwards planted, a sufficient space (5 or 6 feet 

 across,) was kept free from the replaced stones, 

 60 that none should need removal at the time for 

 piantiniT, The trenches were finished in the au- 

 tumn of 1829. The extent of land prepared so 

 laboriously measured 100 toises in length, and 

 8 toises i,i breadth. The quantity of stones 

 remaining, after all the replacing in the trenches, 

 was estimated at 150 tumbril loads, which 

 were all carried without the lot. The earth 

 which had been dug out, served to fill the holes 

 left lor the trees, after their being set out — to fill 

 the interstices between the stones — and also to 

 fiirnish a covering layer of 5 or 6 inches thick. 

 The young trees, when set out, in the places left 

 (or them, had some earth and also manure filled 

 in among and over their roots, then a layer of 6 

 inches of earth, and on that was placed a sort of 

 pavement of flat stones laid in contact, but not 

 closely jointed. Earth was then laid on, to the 

 original level of the surface of the ground. 



All the trees were set at 15 feei square, a distance 

 unusually small in France. The growth of all 

 except those on the flax-ground was very good. 

 M. Carrier states the condition of each year's plan- 

 ting ; and when, in their turn, describing the 297 

 trees set out in the autumn of 1826, he says that 

 they would yield the next season, (1837,) which 

 would be the 11th from the setting out, 40 lbs. of 

 leaves each, on the average ; and he ascribes their 

 very good condition ('■Hres satisfaisant,^'' ) to the 

 circumstance of not having had their leaves plucked 

 until they were 8 years old. That is, we infer, 



8 years from his planting ; which would be at least 



9 from the grafting, if not 10 ; and certainly 10, 

 more probably 11, and perhaps 12 years, from the 

 coming up of the stocks from the aeed. 



What would American culturists think of such 

 expensive labors as the above described, and that 

 merely preparatory for mulberry and silk culture, 

 and from which no returns are to be obtained until 

 after a growth of at least 5, and the better ir6, 7, 

 and even 8 years after the planting ? Nevertheless, 

 the accounts of cost and products, which will be 

 exhibited, show clearly that even this unusual and 

 enormous outlay would not only be reimbursed, 

 but would leave a very large net profit. 



Passing over the operations of the successive 

 annual plantings, and other details, we proceed to 

 the statements of expenses and profits. It will be 

 given in M. Carrier's own figures, and an exact, 

 though somewhat condensed version of hie own 

 worde. 



Vol. VII— 39 



"1825. — Expense of planting 50 mulberry trees. 



Francs. Centimes 



50 detached pits, or lioles, dug at 25 



centimes . . - - 



50 mulberry trees bought at 75 c. 

 Manure for 50 trees, at 60 c. 

 5 days' work in planting, at 1 f. 75 o. 



12.50* 

 37.50 

 30. 

 7.50 



87.50 



Cost per tree, 1 franc 75 centimes. 

 '1826. — Expense of 297 mulberry trees planted. 



Digging 297 holes, at 25 c. - 



297 trees at 75 centimes 



Removal of stones dug up; 24 days' 

 work, at 1.50 - - - . 



Bringing earth from wiihout the lot, 

 to fill the vacancies left in the 

 holes, by the removal of the 

 stones ; 19 days' work at 1.50 - 



Manure for 297 trees, at 40 centimes 



26 days' work in plantinrr, at 1.50, 



74.25 

 222.75 



36. 



28.50 

 118.80 

 39. 



519.30 



Cost per tree, 1 fi-anc, 75 centimes. 

 "1830. — Expense of 120 mulberry trees planted. 



Preparation of 3360 square metres 



of land, whether in moving the 



earth, forming the bed of stones, 



carrying oflT the superabundant 



stones, or bringing from without 



the earth that was deficient ; 137 



days' work, at 1 i; 50 c. - - 205.60 

 120 mulberrry trees, at 75 c. - - 90. 

 13 days' work in planting - - 19.50 



315. 



Cost per tree, 2 f. 62| c. 



"1833. — Expense of 270 trees planted. 



Opening 9 trenches, each of 150 me- 

 tres in length, and preparation of 

 the intervals between the trees ; 

 209 days' work, at 1 f 50 c. - 313.60 



9 days' work of tumbril, in carrying 

 away the useless stones, at 5 f^ 45. 



270 trees at 75 c. - - - 202.50 



7 days' work of a woman, to gather 



moss, (for manure,) at 1 f - 7. 



31 days' work for the plantation, at 

 1.50 .... 



Cost per tree, 2 fr. 27^ c. 



46.50 

 614.50 



* The franc is equal to 1S§ cents, and the centime 

 is the hundredth part of a fianc. 



