. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. se. He found the strongestand best soil near Ostend; and between Bruges and Ghent some of the worst, being littlebetter than a pure sand. 436. From confowiding the Dutch Netherlands with the Flemish Netherlands, a gooddeal of confusion in ideas has resulted. RadclifT, on arriving in Flanders, was informedthat, with respect to culture, not only the E
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. se. He found the strongestand best soil near Ostend; and between Bruges and Ghent some of the worst, being littlebetter than a pure sand. 436. From confowiding the Dutch Netherlands with the Flemish Netherlands, a gooddeal of confusion in ideas has resulted. RadclifT, on arriving in Flanders, was informedthat, with respect to culture, not only the English, but the French, confounded underthe general name of Brabant or Flanders, all the provinces of the Low Countries, howeverdifferent might be their modes of cultivation ; but that in Flanders itself might best beseen, with what skill the farmer cultivates a bad soil [un sol ingrat), which he forces toreturn to him, with usury, a produce that the richest and strongest lands of the neigh-bouring provinces of Holland refuse to yield. The districts described as East and WestFlanders, are bounded on the east by Brabant and Hainault; on the west by the GermanOcean ; on the north by the Sea of Zealand and the West Scheldt; and on the south by. 74 IIISIOKY OF AGRICULTURE. 1\\ French Flanders. It b about ninety 111 i 1 «_? •> long, and sixty broad, and abounds with townsand villages. 4:57. The landed property of Flanders is not in large estates: very few amount to2000 acres. It is generally freehold, or the property of religious or civil the proprietor does not cultivate his own lands, which, however, is most frequentlythe case, lie lets it on leases ; generally of seven, fourteen, or twenty-one years endurance,at a fixed money rent, and sometimes acorn and money rent combined, llie occupier isbound to live on the premises, pay taxes, effect repairs, preserve timber, not subletwithout a written agreement, and to give the usual accommodations to an incomingt
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