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The Prize Farms of France. 
4119/., or 17Z. per acre. The total value of the produce was, in 
1848, 1858/., or 8/. per acre under cultivation; in 1858, 3231/., 
or 14/. per acre. 
These results were clearly set forth in accounts, a model for 
accuracy and distinctness of details, kept by Madame Lange. 
No wonder that the jury thought that here the prize was well 
earned, but they could not here bestow it. 
We pass on to a farm, part of the large landed estate of Cany, 
held conjointly by Madame Rocquigny, a widow, and her two 
sons. This farm appears on the " Cadastre," or national register 
of land, to comprise 350 acres ; but, after deducting some 
50 acres for woods, 25 for waste, a large sandpit, roads, &c., 
242 acres only remain for the farm, of which one-half of the 
soil, being both light and cold, is rated in the third and fourth 
classes. The further end of the farm — a blowing sand on an 
impervious clay — was left as a sheep-walk by the former tenant. 
It has since been limed and marled, and made into good pasture. 
The crops were clean and very surprising when the quality of 
the land is considered : wheat (English white-chafF red) 33 
bushels on bad land ; oats, tares, clover, beet, all very fine. 
Manure and compost had done their work. In one year 335 
cubic yards of perfectly-decayed vegetable compost had been 
applied to two fields (Nos. 29 and 36). 
The present tenants found on entry a stock of manure of 
222 tons. In 1859, there was produced upon the farm 1245 
tons 17 cwts., exclusive of dressings, such as marl, lime, " sel de 
coussin," ashes, gypsum, soot, on which 517/. was expended in 
five years. After contracting to buy all the grains of a brewery 
at 5c/, per bushel, these spirited tenants, knowing the value of 
beet-pulp for stock, determined to set up a distillery, buildings, 
stores, and all. It works up 4 tons of beet per day, thus sup- 
plying such a quantity of pulp as the stock can easily consume 
while it is fresh, so that they like it better and thrive faster. At 
the end of the season, when corn is cheap, that too is bought^and 
distilled, the refuse being eaten with still greater relish by the 
animals. The live stock, of course, increased with the supply 
of pulp. The dairy-cows, " Cotentines," seem to be very good 
milkers, giving 17 to 22 quarts per day. They are put to a 
short-horn bull, belonging to an association in which the tenants, 
liave a sliare. 
Some of the ewes (Cauchoises) have been put to a Southdown 
ram, which the landlord generously imported for the good of his 
tenants. The cross is thoroughly successful. The produce <ire 
muc h nearer to the ground, and better framed. For early ma- 
turity and diminished consumption of food to obtain a given 
weight of carcase, the benefit of this cross is very great. 
