130 
PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM. 
Francs. 
Labor with the hoe, 96 days at 2 francs, - - 192 
Sowing, harrowing by hand, 44 days at 2 francs,- - 88 
Twice digging, - - - - - - / - lis 
Collecting opium, 229 days at 2 francs, - - - 453 
Total for opium, - - - - - 856 
Collecting seed, 37 days at 2 francs, - ... 74 
930 
PROBABLE PRODUCT OF ONE HECTARE. 
By supposing one-third more for the produce of opium 
(for it must be admitted that the season will not be always 
so unfavorable as this year,) M. Hardy arrived at the fol- 
lowing results — 
Opium, 13 killogrammes, 268 at 30 francs, - - 698 
Poppy-seed. 1 1 hectolitres, at 30 francs, - - 330 
690 bundles of stalks, at 10 centimes, ... 69 
Total produce per hectare, - - - - 1097 
Nett profit, - 167 
We have received from the Minister of War two sam- 
ples of opium obtained from another culture by M. Simon, 
by means of peculiar processes. This opium was contain- 
ed in poppy heads cut in two. 
No. 1 lost by desiccation 8-5 per cent., and gave 3-70 of 
pure morphia, representing 3-74 for the opium reduced to 
the proportion of water taken as a term of comparison. 
No. 2 contained 6-45 of water; 3 86 of morphia was 
obtained, a quantity equivalent to 3*82, for the normal de- 
gree of humidity. 
These results, verified by twice repeating the analysis, 
prove that the quality of the opium extracted by M. Simon 
is rather inferior to that of the samples from Algiers, col- 
lected in 1843 and 1844. 
The smaller proportions of morphia might, indeed, be 
compensated, or more than that, by the greater quantities 
of opium collected j but not having received any intelli- 
