70 Cultivation of Arable Land. Teqfil. 



pofed on a cloth in the fun till the feed can be eafily forced out by flightly beating 

 them. It is then to be rendered perfectly clean, and afterwards placed in a funny 

 Situation until it is become quite dry j for if the leaft dampnefs remain it will grow 

 mouldy, and its vegetative power be either greatly impaired or wholly deftroyed. 

 When thus properly dried, it mould be put in fmall bags, and hung up to the 

 ceiling of a room where a fire is conflantly kept. 



The produce from the root of this plant is different, according to the goodnefs 

 of the foil, but moftly from ten to fifteen or twenty hundred weight where they are 

 fuitable to its culture. 



It feems probable that the cultivation of madder might be rendered a profitable 

 article of field hufbandry in different diftri&amp;lt;ts, if the importation of the root from 

 Holland was prohibited ; as the event of different trials has mown that full crops 

 of good madder are capable of being raifcd. It is fuppofed by an intelligent cul 

 tivator, that if the price was never lower than three pounds the hundred weight, it 

 might be grown not only with profit by the farmer, but without injury to the con- 

 fumer.* 



From the high degree of culture which land under this fort of crop muft neceflarily 

 undergo, and its not being fo much exhauftedas in many other cafes, it muft bean 

 excellent preparation for wheat or any other crop that requires a clean and fine pul 

 verized condition of the ground. 



Teafel. This is a plant of the thiftle kind, which is cultivated in the field in 

 fome diftridh for its ufe in the drefling of cloths, the head being conftkuted of 

 different well-turned vegetable hooks.-)- 



The foils moft adapted to the culture of this plant are thofe of the more ftrong 

 and deep kinds, but which are not too rich, as loamy clays, and fuch as have mar- 

 ley bottoms and are fit for the growth of wheat crops. If broken up from the 

 flate of old ley, it is the better; but wheat ftubbles are fometirnes made ufe of for 

 the purpofe. 



The fituations the moft favourable are thofe that are rather elevated, open, and 

 incline to the fouth. The high grounds, efpecially where the country is inclofed, 

 are the moft advantageous, as the natural fuperabundant moifture in the heads of 

 the plants is more completely diffipated in wet feafons, which in other more low 

 fituations is apt to lodge fo long upon them as to caule them to decay* 



In the preparation of the ground when it is a ley, the beft method is to plough 

 k up deeply in the beginning of the year, as in the firft part of February ; and where 



* Boys s Correfted Agricultural Report of Kent, t li is the Dipsacus Fullo?ium } or Fuller s Thiftle, 



