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Variation in the Price and Supply of Wheat. 
planting the worst, and that a change of seed is desirable in a plant so affected 
by disease. 
HAVRE, 1861. — Drainage, tnrnip culture, and a judicious rotation of crops, 
are very little practised in Normandy. The farms are generally small — 5 to 
15 acres— and the farmers embarrassed. "The sheep are a long-legged bony 
breed that have never been improved. Turni[ s are unknown as an esculent 
to fatten animals." 
CORSICA, July 1866. — The products of agricultural industry are lemons, 
oranges, clicstnuts, olive oil, cork, dried vegetables, lupine-seed, tobacco, silk, 
raisins, wines, wool, hempen-seed, bark for tanning, fire-wood, timber, and 
wax. All of these are exported. Corsica docs not in the best years produce 
half the food necessary for its population. Flour is imported from Marseilles, 
equal to about 50,000 quarters of wheat a year. 
Consular Reports from the Countries of the Mediterranean. 
Italy. 
TURIN. Report of Mr. Consul Colnaghi on the Agricultural Pro- 
duce OF Lombard Y in 186(>. — Cultivated Land. — The extent of land under 
cultivation in Lombaidy is calculated at about 2,743,564 acres, which may be 
thus classed : — 
Acres. 
Meadow lands 621,363 
Rice fields 153,090 
Wheat, maize, oats, rye, vines, &c ^ 1 ,968,511 
The average annual production of Lombardy is estimated as under : — 
♦Wheat imperial qris. 6,706,0.50 
Eye „ „ 155,755 
Oats „ „ 105,233 
Indian Com „ „ 1,031,700 
Barley , „ 16,851 
Rice tons 34,456 
Millet imperial qrs. 92,853 
Hay tons 944,832 
Wine. — Before the appearance of the oidium, the average quantity of wine 
produced in Lombardy was estimated at 27,031,490 imperial gallons ; at present 
it is less than one quarter of that quantity. 
The Vine. — The cultivation of the vine, never so important a branch of 
agricultural industry in Lombardy as in the neighbouring provinces, is greatly 
decreasing. 
Silk. — The produce of cocoons in Lombardy, before the disense, was calcu- 
lated on an average at from 325,285 cwts. to 393,571 cwts. In 1866 the produce 
may he estimated at 157,440 ewls,, of the value of 1,280,000Z. 
Milk, Butter, and Cheese. — Milk, butter, and cheese are among the prin- 
cipal and most important iiroducts of these provinces, and especially of the 
irrigated districts of Lower Lombardy. It is calculated that exclusive of an 
enormous consumption of milk in kind, the manulacture of cheese amounts to 
21,632 tons per annum, of a value of 1,200,000Z. Of the total quantity, the 
* The production of wheat is probably not a tenth of this quantity ; the figures 
are misprinted. — H. E. 
