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Italian Irrigation. 
After flax, cut at the end of June, millet is immediately sown, 
and comes to maturity about the end of October of the same 
year. A sixth year is occasionally added to the period, when 
another crop of Indian corn is taken, and the rotation again com- 
mences in the same order." 
" In illustration of several points connected with this subject," 
writes Colonel Baird Smith, " I may give here the following com- 
parative statement of expenditure and return from irrigated and 
unimgated lands in the Lumellina, which is one of the best 
irrigated districts in Piedmont. They were prepared by an 
excellent authority — a gentleman in charge of a number of the 
canals in the provinces of iSIortara and Novara — and are the 
results of actual experience on a property consisting of 3750 acres, 
I believe, therefore, they may be accepted as tolerably correct. 
The originals being all in Piedmontese measures, I have reduced 
them throughout to their equivalents in our own. 
IX. — " CoMPAKATiVE STATEMENT of Expenses and Returns from Irrigated and 
Unirri gated Land in Piedmont. 
Xature of Cultivation. 
l-Lxpenses. I Receipts. 
1st, Culture of one acre of good strong land 
in the usual rotatiou of five years — i 
Witlwmt Irrigation. , 
Manuring. — Purchase, carriage, and spread-j' 
ing of 135 cwt. of stable manure, at 4J(Z.> 
each j 
The ploughing and hanowing are executed in 
return (or the grass nnd the gleaning of the 
Indian com after the hari-est. Other field- 
work is paid for en metayer, with one-fouith 
of the produce. 
Produce in grain, deducting seed and the 
portion due to the metayer, 2l'I bushels, 
at S«. 4d. each 
Manure, two-thirds of the quantity used the\ 
first year 
Three ploughings and harrowings, at 4«. .. 
Produce iu legumes, deducting seed and 
portion due to the metayer, 18 bushels, at 
3s. 1 1 d. each 
One ploughing and harrowing, at 4s 
Produce in straw 
Produce in grain, deducting seed and por- 
tion due to the mttayer, 17'16 bushels, at 
5s. \0d. each 
Four ploughings and harrowings, at 4«. 
Manure, as in the first year 
Produce equal to that of the third year 
viz., 
Straw 
Grain 
d. £. 
2 10 6 
1 1.3 8 
0 12 0 
0 4 0 
0 Ifi 0 
2 10 (3 
