Farm of M. Lange. 
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M. Lange, since i8-4G owner of 242 acres near Fauville, where 
we are again near the sea, and shelter-belts of trees and sea- 
rushes are again to be deducted from the farm proper. 
This small tenant-farmer has erected a distillery, and supplies 
it himself with roots. To accomplish this, his rotation (praised 
for being truly " alternate ") is as follows : — 
1. Beet, well manured, 
2. Oats. 
3. Clover. 
4. Wheat, manured with rape-cake. 
5. One-half mangold, the rest trifolium. 
6. One-half rape-seed, with a strong fold ; half mangold. 
7. Wheat, folded or lightly manured. 
The 5th and 6th years are modified for the supply of mangold, 
that he mav be independent of the market. To bear these crops 
l-18th to l-16th of the farm is marled every year; the clover is 
dressed with gypsum to very good effect ; compost-heaps with 
lime are formed ; the manure is carefully and scientifically 
made ; the cultivation is very good. Howard and Valcourt's 
harrows, Crosskill's clodcrusher, Smith's drill, and a weighbridge, 
figure among the implements. The crops, which are reported 
quite magnificent and thoroughly clean, are set — the wheat at 
33 to 38 bushels; oats 55 bushels; rape-seed (1860) nearly 42 
bushels ; mangold 20 tons on the average. 
The live stock consist of — 
Cows (short-horn cross) 6 
Bullocks ditto 12 
Young stock 14 
Horses (picked mares) 14 
Ewes, Chaulois-Merino 220 
Hoggetts 70 
Fatting sheep 130 
Earns 4 
M. Lange is shareholder in a company which buys prime 
short-horn bulls for joint use, and has won the first prize at 
Rouen with a fat ox sold for 56/. 
The distillery cost for the buildings (simple but solid) and the 
plant together 800/.; "much economy must have been shown 
not to exceed this moderate sum." La Play's system is adopted : 
22 gallons of spirit (100' French standard) are commonly ex- 
tracted from 2 tons of beet; but in 1860 3 J cwts. more were 
required. 
The rent of this farm, when let, was 280/. ; the average net 
profit, since the owner took it in hand, has been 336/. ; "that 
is to say, the net produce has been more than doubled." The 
inventory of December 31st, 1859, showed a farm-capital of 
