Cultivation of Arable Land.~ Chicory Time and Method of /owing. 395 



ploughing* at fuitable feafons, according to the nature of the foil, and repeated 

 harrowings. 



Seed. This is beft when collected from the plants by the cultivator, as, like moft 

 other forts, it is liable to be mixed in the mops. It vegetates in the moft perfect 

 manner when new. 



The quantity of feed which is neceflary for the acre muft, as in other forts of 

 crops, of courfc vary according to the nature of the land and the intentions of the 

 farrrur ; but the ufual proportion, whether fown alone or with grain in the fpring, 

 is from ten to twelve pounds. In the row method of fowing, at the diftance of a 

 foot, from feven or eight to ten pounds may, however, be fully fufficient. As 

 the plant is not of the tillering or fpreading fort, a full proportion of feed 

 Should, however, conftantly be put in, that the ground may be well covered with 

 herbage. 



Time and Method of Sowing. The period of putting in chicory crops muft be 

 regulated by the method in which the bufinefs is performed, and the views of the 

 cultivator. When it is fown without other forts of crops, the work may be exe 

 cuted, at any time from about the middle of March till the latter end of the fum- 

 mer ; but with corn it muft depend on the feafon they are put in. It is fown with 

 both oats and barley, but the firft will obvioufly admit of the more early fowing. 

 From the plant being hardy, it mould, probably, be put into the foil as early in the 

 fpring as poflible. Mr. Young found it lefs liable to be injured by grain crop* 

 than other forts of grafTes, and to fucceed well with moft of them. 



It is moftly fown in the broadcaft method, after the furface has been rendered 

 fine and covered in by a light harrowing. But from its growing with the greateft 

 luxuriance where it is the moft open and has the greateft benefit of free air, it 

 is fuggefted as well adapted to the row method of cultivation.* In which cafe it 

 may be drilled in at nine inches on fuch lands as are of the poorer kind, and twelve 

 in thofe that are more fertile, being harrowed in by one bout of the harrow. 



After-management* Where the crop has been put into the ground in the manner 

 directed above, little attention is neceflary afterwards, efpecially when cultivated 

 in the common broadcaft method j. but where drilled in rows, the ufe of the hoe 

 will be required to keep the intervals as well as the plants in the rows clean, and 

 the ground well ftirred.. 



Crops of this plant, from the great quicknefs and luxuriance of their, growth^ 



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