( 23°) 
ether too small a one to justify any expense in mak- 
ing them. } 
- 4,,A good rotation system, adapted to the soil 
and climate, is not absolutely unknown, and may be 
found even in whole districts (as in French Flanders) 
but much too rarely. We have seen wheat and fal- 
lows alternating for years; and wheat, rye, hemp and 
rye, and many others equally ridiculous. 
5. To the eye, more than one’ half of France is a 
common, without fences of any kind, excepting gar- 
den or park walls. Can there be order, economy 
and security, under such circumstances? Can the 
police and the gens d’armes be sutlicient substitutes ? 
VIII. Holland, though essentially commercial, has 
_ from causes rarely occurring, become also highly ag- 
ricultural. To the descendants of Dutchmen, the 
following description of her industry, in this respect, 
cannot but be acceptable. It is from the pen of an 
excellent judge and faithful narrator (1) 
«Their rotation of crops, always begins with the 
culture either of some leguminous plant or profitable 
root, and generally with the potatoe, as the best pre- 
parative of the ground. Whatever may be the grain 
which follows, whether wheat, rye, &c. &c. it is gen- 
erally sown with red clover ; and where it is not, the 
stubble is ploughed in immediately after harvest, and 
a crop of turnips taken, and either consumed on the 
ground or housed for the winter. A single depart- 
ment (that of Zealand) obtains by the culture of 
(1) M. Yvart, professor of agriculture at Elfort. See his introductory address to 
his class in 1806, ; 
