The corn and cattle producing districts of France (1878) (14582020579)

Identifier: corncattleproduc00rich (find matches)
Title: The corn and cattle producing districts of France
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Richardson, George Gibson, 1816-1879
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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the age at which they are profitable, they are putup to fatten as best they may; but as it is seldom theyare so put up until they are ten years old, the result isnot very satisfactory. Pigs. There is a large production of pigs in Mar die, the soil particularly suits the growth of potatoes,upon which they are fed, and now that there aremeans of conveyance by railway which permit of theirreaching distant markets without being driven on foot,the sorts that are put on fat at the expense of theircapacity for locomotion are increasing. Export of Upon the whole, the export of animals of all kinds Animals. - ^ Avill now reach as much as £400,000 yearly, and isincreasing. Limousin. The bcauty of the country is so various, and inevery respect so striking and interesting, that I shallattempt no particular description, but observe in general,that I am much in doubt whether there be anvthins:comparable to it either in England or Ireland. It isnot that a fine view breaks now and then u23on the eye
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LIMOUSIN, 313 to compensate the traveller for tlie dulness of a miiclilonger district, but a quick succession of landscapes,many of which, would be rendered famous in Englandby the resort of travellers to view them. The countryis all hill or valley; the hills are very high, and wouldbe called with us mountains, if waste and covered withheath; but being cultivated to the very tops, theirmagnitude is lessened to the eye. Their forms arevarious; they swell in beautiful semi-globes ; they pro-ject in abrupt masses, which enclose deep glens; theyexpand into amphitheatres of cultivation that rise ingradation to the eye, in some places tossed into athousand inequalities of surface; in others, the eyereposes on scenes of the softest verdure. Add tothis the rich robe ia which Natures bounteous handhas dressed the slopes with hanging woods of chesnut,and whether the vales open their verdant bosoms,and admit the sun to illumine the rivers in their com-parative repose; or whether they be closed i