Annual Cultivation of the Soil. 225 



Working by the plow, over two-thirds of an acre $o 38 



Working by hand, over one-third of an acre, at two dollars and 



eighty-eight cents per acre o 96 



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Total $1 34 



Compartive Cost of Light-Dressings by Hand and by the 

 Plow. — These figures enable us to compare the light 

 dressings done by hand, and those done by the plow. 



In Champagne, the cultivation costs, altogether, nine 

 dollars and sixty cents per acre. 



The vine being planted in rowrs, forty inches apart, 

 the use of the plow will give rise to an expenditure of 

 fifty-six cents per acre, for each dressing, as we have 

 shown above. This operation being repeated four 

 times, we have a total expenditure of two dollars and 

 twenty-four cents, instead of nine dollars and sixty 

 cents, and this gives a difference of seven dollars and 

 thirty-six cents. 



In Burgundy, a single dressing is usual, and that costs 

 two dollars and eighty-eight cents per acre. Performed 

 by the plow, this work is done at a cost of fifty-six 

 cents, which is a saving of two dollars and thirty-two 

 cents per acre. This operation might be repeated a 

 second time, and there would still remain a difference 

 of one dollar and seventy-six cents per acre. 



In the moorlands of Bordelais^ and on the hills of 

 the right bank of the Garonne, below Bordeaux, only 

 one dressing is usual, which costs two dollars and sixty- 

 four cents per acre. If executed by means of the 

 horse cultivator, the cost will only be fifty-six cents, 

 giving a difference of two dollars and eight cents per 

 acre, and, if two dressings were done, instead of one, 



