T!ie Lower Seine. 
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Next, M. Burel, also a farmer, holding- 284 acres since 1844, 
proved that in the interval he had increased his farm capital from 
2400/. to GOOOZ. ; laid down 32 acres in pasture, which he manures 
every third year with 50 cubic yards of compost, 6 cwts. of guano, 
and 4 cwts. of gypsum per acre ; that he winters a grazing flock of 
520 half-bred merinos, keeps pure and half-bred short-horns, good 
milkers, and fattens their produce. He had the same response — 
a commendation. 
The Count de Malartic, who owns half the old family property 
which once surrounded the chateau, claims attention for the beet- 
root distillery, which he set up on Le Play's system, and supplies 
from his own farm of 230 acres arable, by the aid of a magni- 
ficent root store, holding 2000 tons, his usual crop.* To meet 
this demand for beet an eight-course rotation has been adopted, 
including of beet, 3 crops ; of wheat, 2 ; oats, 2 ; clover,'.!. 
It appears that the beet, though so often repeated, averages 24 
tons per acre. The farm is paid as high as 16s. per ton for all 
the beet delivered, and still the distillery makes a good profit. 
A splendid double shed has been erected for feeding cattle with 
the pulp. 
" The jury, well knowing the services rendered bv such dis- 
tilleries to the agriculture of the Xorth, by increasing the supply 
of butchers' meat and providing such a stock of manure as much 
advances the fertility of the soil, publicly thank this large pro- 
prietor for such an application of his fortune, which appears to 
have been made with strict regard to economy, and to have pro- 
duced pecuniary results which are highly satisfactory. Such an 
example deserves to meet with many imitators." 
Let us now look to the achievements of a proprietor of more 
moderate means — M. Dubosc — who farms 114 acres near Fe- 
camp, which he bought nine years before the contest. We here 
meet with the spirited breeder (on a small scale) of choice 
animals ; stock here occupy the first, not the second place. The 
soil is good, the subsoil strong, but not impermeable ; and chalk 
and marl have been raised from a depth of 38 yards. 
This spirited agriculturist keeps three short-horn bulls ; one 
of them, ''the Son of Baltic," is paid 1/. a cow bv his neigh- 
bours ; the three earn him 68Z. a year. He keeps 6 good cows ; 
one of them (7-8ths of short-horn) gives 17 quarts of milk per dav. 
He has a stallion and some good mares (Xorman and Cauchois). 
The breeding flock consists of 100 pure merino ewes and 100 
possessing much merino blood ; 7 pure merino rams are kept. 
This practical man has a manure depot, 80 feet long and 24 feet 
• The floor of this store is five feet tiEdergrouDd ; it is traversed by a rail for 
a handtruck, and covered -with, tiles. 
