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With regard to the supposed scarcity of corn occasioned by the

multiplication of vineyards, corn is nowhere in France more

carefully cultivated than in the wine provinces, where the land

is fit for producing it: as in Burgundy, Guienne, and the Upper

Languedoc. The numerous hands employed in the one species of

cultivation necessarily encourage the other, by affording a ready

market for its produce. To diminish the number of those who are

capable of paying it, is surely a most unpromising expedient for

encouraging the cultivation of corn. It is like the policy which

would promote agriculture, by discouraging manufactures.