462 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND ———= GAZETTE. [May 19, 1860, 
the Agricultural Gazette is due to Professor James that we personally know several estates, the, It er Brena Jans nceanng Some 
Bu A e Cirencester A — al College. | owners of which would be very glad to “es under French laws is some ec conomiat fined 
His laborious analyses a com pap been the mu glish tenants. In the central districts of Fran + : R v diminishing, but an officia} 
mate on ch all the prea connected | the land of average quality, and when pon tT oS Casant to the Senate by Py their 
ave ome ae have turned, and to is due e | drain ned, well cleansed, and perly enclosed, e Bede “tie year 1850 to 1854 il th yond controversy 
the ex of the risks which in this attioalar beni “tndoubtedly pae most ppap c Ra Sth giei p ae re oe re n a er of frag- 
the English farmer runs from his own carelessness ie is also moderate, although we do not | buildin as qui. egehola. Jn ivy had patea decal and Lg 
y of others it Sieh aifetty i re ] ola A “put — the Pee increase being 4 28,372, Y 263,893, 
B T has directed hi would e p ifficulty in obtaining a long | Tbiso ranha at such a subdivision of pr 
f this subject Se enoug = and |a moder ntal, so that the tenant might produce ordinary facilities to the KeA 
now nike ie pricey in the sister „scien ce— safely apiy. his apin, in improvements, with a | that het and ambi of all F 
of seeds, as well as in other departments | i 
ific agriculture. Agriculturists and seeds- 
d k th ista 
l analyst for their security 
ust as farmers and man e makers s 
the certificate of chemical 
laying information on both subjects before our | 
rendera, but papies of seeds, like samples of soil 
„manure, m for the fokis be sent to the 
e cannot fo: 
= We commend Mr. CLARKE’S most 
which succeeded his 
ont W 
analys 
hall still take every fiting opportunity of 
os 
muc 
effective | is 
paper 
bandry, read last week before | fi 
be ha d ata renta 
capital, it is ey he could buy an estate on 
reasonable terms. There is no lack of freehol 
estates in ym Fek. wan as we shall presently |; 
show, bu would be a great mistake to think 
fatal ¢ tion 
f th Trench 
peasants to- become owners of the soi er 
hand the smallness of the fragment offered for sale bie | 
the insane competition of the nu us buyers grea: 
enhance the value of the coy 
Ee ri- spe ecu nh alled 
ra iti in small lotas a ‘the pen 
a rofit, a T 
5 
| that transaction what e money they may ha 
ed oh of their sana prialions n an za Ja ia 
pechenathly economical or rathe enurious mode 
rio ly 1 1 
that '1 and is haere ap in France. Even in the most 
ace ee di etziote, Pata always commands a full |e 
cer ireumstauces we will prenantly 
po La But a: ssio land, althoug 
h coveted by a certain class of society 
in general so much encumbered with heavy 
i its trans- 
er by sale or her 
heirs se poe thi 
the oni’? Farmers Club, to the a cas of our | fatal to the true ere ae | Aie on e 
readers, who will find it in another c os ners are glad to get rid of it, in order to = or burdened the transfer with such # heavy tg that 
their capital in other securities bringin EE kae th l 
THE LTO Enaren HUSBANDMEN.—There h . chal way o: heritage or purc ase, e whole of its value fir 
has arire penaa in our advertising columns an higher interest, REE aeiy ation ver ee ae HBcheqee te 77 ste enter ee, Gorom 
‘Appeal to Hu bento? Ramer 025 to Me PE Be equer and the pockets of the lawyers. Besides the 
sesitedterinsey em , cdi REAS u ASS AEN soil of France is so unj | probate duty, which is saben high, the tax gatherer 
th ner ea i pe + petal araka hein os a is ectly tru pt en ghee regal exists in the} levies on the gross proceeds of all land sales no less 
R tral f T field for English than 6.60 per cent. If to this enormous amount the 
that et fo h Ehrat ral provinces of France a vast fie r Engli 
+ Tac grad tine sar ral i nay won ran skill and capital, and were it not for law expenses are added, the total c: not be less than - 
cnnty : ‘and ‘some of our a of the urable cir irenmstances aap. wait |12 or 15 per cent, Where the property is mortgaged 
th 
be, and the value of the see 
so the ruined 
miserable th aa it 
are the | 
frequently ocour 
the door of his far 
| fortunately there is a — to that 
searcely yield the cost of tillage, | 
held o 
by see uae nt i 
wou a ass 
uredly be speedily aie: But u 
kright Sodik | 
the oo i < which is | 
husbandm We will x 
the pepee which an 
have t ee: in that land of promise, and the | i 
batden difficulties, and respons aputa that) 
sinavi 
assure our reader 
we haye had “bror ma fee er our notice well- c 
E sae i or of that nature 
m personal observation we can testif y 
ro instances where the tenant has not been able 
y his rent for several years, ape wapporting 
helt se family from the produce of the 
daar T ecessary to Ph ‘ lament- 
things prevails vo the centr: 
distri aa rA 
zihen orth t Era 
flourishes, ate pts 
crops of sufficient 
to | Shine in E 
E agri ure, for insta 3 
a battle is to be fought in our favoured land as 
ing 
com ) 
to form a correct judgment, what 
o | Property 
especially when he leaves 
| ach 
our "eaten 
We that in Jat 
| holding o ans Phare fen the following pisture, we 
desire of discour- | 18 
o become owners of a property Sent scarcely return 
2 per cent. 
The law whichon the one ma oni — jer of 
compulsory at the death of wners 
TE Bp 
be less than > HA cent. ; $ Bee the land property erty of Brano 
is burdened with ual payment of sixteen and a 
in fac 
e 
ae 
official documents what is the 
aes ot landed property in France. The estimate 
at by the French Government aay 
= ae q 1 11.4 41 byt + 
ipendous 
“This is tho the 
tn 4} fil 
diminishing | 
eR 
lly 
is more e more 
of France on a sufficient. one to enable every field, how- 
ever „Small, to be distinctly delineated on the map, 
tenant to live cat af Aaa ‘In nthe so 
cultivation of t tié the Olive ean at 
> in such o 
mght into he AA Ea ‘The law which 
inheritance, personal real, 
~ | among the 
or 
chi 
ee of ar and its commercial value. 
wepert. a CASABIANCA, sae sided to 3 
pae oti knd prope ch hye 
i ial buildings, a 
to about 835 millions sterling, yieldin 
i £ 105,756 ~ 
ci any cial data we are pai to 
I accept 36 fad ib doi to th hat after the 
self, ey with his goods, ca miy a skil 3 reave | Property-tax, woo E te Paso seat per cent. of 
a place confessedly wretched, it is natural | oF the net income, as we will presently 
he should first inquire what are the causes which | fragments in interest paid to the rine yh = allows “ep fal we 
have p duced so lamentable result, and t Sea ~ the whole income of the real property of 
paver himself that his superior skill, his greater | about a Wer 
= “ds of enterprise and a etivity, and, Ree his} p No doubt there are ake be found i in some parts oi Bi now sarap to the bat tk of taxation. In — 
Beri 
anti Makati and ¢ hedness into se : prema E me estates of en considerable sizes size, Boo fans pastes mon yet an ay 
u acres and al more comm: pursuits, railway 
Rien ite tiur scarcity 3 ae and that | je one-third of = arable erie so s0 fall bwo:thieds a maak et-pays oTa hing tothe stat2. Itis 
surface are divided into : pants established: 
can be no doubt of hen os with ce whieh) In 1850 there ies a owners | Shares in mans po enterprises, but it is only a smal} 
nt | of property, 3,000,000 of whom were too poor to | “=¢ePtion Property tax is not levied after a 
pe ions tat i a re found | i others Aip sarr maghati 
Wwhoed average exceed one half-penny fifth of the ren eoè ie oa e A O omes, 
a a aly to 10 per cent., in others. to 15 per cent. ; Lane 
-> These facts are t MC "s Official Rep figure tna y, safely be taken a the average 
to the Senate, iJand property t taxation Se rance, In 1854 the 
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