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Appendix, No. 29, wherein, though the priee of. 

 Rye is regularly stated, that of Wheat, for many 

 periods, and at several markets, is wholly unnoticed. 

 In the beautiful, but narrow valley of the Neckar, 

 the land is well cultivated ; but in the other parts of 

 the kingdom, the soil seemed to be poor, and thfc 

 cultivation in a very backward state. 



As I passed through France rather hastily, and sp^nt 

 but a few days in Paris, I had not opportunities of 

 gaining minute information as to the state of Agricul- 

 ture. I was however, satisfied, that, in spite of par-, 

 tial advances towards a better rotation of crop?, the 

 far greater part of the cultivation is still carried on 

 upon the ancient, and, in England, long exploded 

 system of a fallow, followed by two crops of corn. 



I was assured, that, for several years past, every 

 cultivator of Grain has been selling at far less than 

 it has cost him. Some of the best judges of the 

 subject have calculated that Wheat, in the four 

 classes of districts formed of the departments for the 

 purposes of regulating the importation and exporta- 

 tion of Corn, costs to the grower, on an average, 

 from 20 to 22 francs the hectolitre, or from 6s. 4d. 

 to 6s. lid. the Winchester bushel. 



Plow far this calculation may be correct, it would 

 he presumption in me to assert. The Corn Laws of 

 France are, however, founded on a supposition of 

 this being the price necessary to secure a profit to 

 the farmer. The kingdom is divided, for the pur- 

 poses of the Corn Law, into four districts, each 

 including departments in which the prices of Grain 

 are nearly alike. When Wheat is below IS francs, 

 the hectolitre, or 5s. ~\d. the bushel in the cheapest 

 df those districts, 20 francs or 6*. tyd. in the 

 next, 22 francs or Is. O^d. in the next, and 24 

 franco or 7s. Sd. in the highest, the importation of 

 Foreign Wfceat is prohibited As the whole of tha. 



