1792- chicorittm intybus. 271 



for appearances would not allow that supposition; but to 

 some accidental variety of the soil, or preceding culture j 

 and the principal circumstance to be attended to, is the 

 superiority of chicory, in ^i:ieral, to the other plants in 

 general, which is remarkably great. 



The reader will of course bear in recollection, the cir- 

 cumstance of the season being an uncommon drought, 

 so that all crops of grafses, both natural and artificial, 

 ■were as scanty as ever known. These crops of chicory 

 amount, in this unfavourable season, from three to four tons 

 of hay per acre, allowing it to lose three-fourths in drying ; 

 not that the plant is perfectly adapted to making hay *, but 

 merely to mark the produce. One cannot but remark the e- 

 normous difference between this plant and lucerne j while 

 chicory yields from ten to eighteen Xan^per acre, the lu- 

 c-erne is such a poor, puny, sickly thing, as not to pay for 

 mowing the weeds which its weaknefs allows to vege- 

 tate I 



Experiment 2. 



The trial upon this plant, already registered in this work, 

 (Annals of Agriculture) during three years, was this year 

 cut, June 14th, produce 441b. and August i8th, 281b. in all 

 72lb. 5 or per acre, 23 tons 6 cwt. 80 lb.; a very conside- 

 rable produce ; — the extreme drought considered, much 

 more than might have been expected. In four years the 

 acreable produce has been 119 tons, or very near 30 tons 

 per acre per annum ! one of those years that of sowing, and 

 another an extreme drought. 



A general observation I (liall make, which may be 

 worth the attention of those who cultivate this excellent 

 plant, which is, that it seems to flouriflr remarkably where 



• 1 however made about half an acre this year into hay, the crop good, 

 the hayi in so dry a season, made as weil as any other, anJ is eati:n by all 

 live iCo:lc as readily 



