The following comparative tables, shewing the value which is obtained from one acre in four years, by a farmer, following the Norfolk course, in England, and that obtained, from the same space in three years according to the Flemish course, will best illustrate the superior advantages of the latter over the former:

TABLE I.——ENGLAND.

1st. year. Turnips, according
to Arthur Young,l.240
2d. do. Barley,400
3d. do. Clover,3120
4th. do. Wheat,600
Wheat Straw,326
Barley, do.0157
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Total produce in 4 years,l.19141

Giving one year with another, l.4 18 61⁄4 per acre.

TABLE II——FLANDERS.

1st. year.Green Oats,l.0168
Potatoes,1051
2d. do.Wheat,378
Spurry,201
3d. do.Rye,200
Turnips,216
Wheat Straw,1010
Rye do.132
Halm, or straw of potatoes,062
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Total produce in 3 years,l.2372

Giving one year with another, l.7 9 1 per acre.

From these statements, proceeding upon the most correct data, it is seen that the value of the produce of one acre of ground, cultivated according to the Flemish system for three years, is, (within a fraction,) 50 per cent. more than what is produced in four years from an equal space of ground, managed agreeably to the most approved principles of English husbandry. The advantages of the Flemish farmer, will appear still more striking, when the nett profit which he clears, after paying the necessary expenses of cultivation is contrasted with that of the English farmer. According to Arthur Young, the English farmer receives about four and a half twentieths of the produce, calculating the gross produce of the soil at twenty. This upon l.4 18 61⁄4, (the result per acre, for one year, as in Table I.) would give l.1 2 11⁄4.

The produce, per acre, for one year, in Flanders (see Table II.) is l.7 9 1; the expense of cultivation, land tax, and rent, according to Vanderstraten, is l.4 0 1; leaving to the farmer l.3 9 0; or nearly four times the amount obtained by the English farmer.

The subject of Flemish Husbandry is by no means exhausted. I shall resume it in future communications.