3.96 Cultivation of Arable Land. Chicory After -management of. 



are capable of being repeatedly cut in the fummer months, for the purpofe of foil 

 ing horfes and other forts of flock. It fhould not, however, be cut more than once 

 or twice the firft feafon, but in the following fummers the operation may be per 

 formed three or four times, according to circumftances. Mr. Young advifes four 

 cuttings, in order to prevent the ftems from running up too much and becoming 

 dry, fticky, and lefs nutritive.* The proper times are to begin about April or 

 May, and to continue it every other month till October. 



Its produce when cut green is larger than that of either of the two preceding 

 plants, affording, in Mr. Young s trials, upon the average of four years, thirty 

 tons to the acre : this is probably, however, a larger produce than the plant is 

 capable in general of affording. 



It is only in favourable feafons that this coarfe juicy plant can be made into hay 

 with fuccefs : nor is it well fuited for the purpofe,being of much greater advantage 

 whe*i confumed in its green flate. Its produce in this way is dated at from three 

 to four tons the acre.f This fort of hay is, however, aflerted to be nutritious. 



When left to run up to ftem and feed the produce is conliderable, amounting in 

 the third year to more than four hundred weight on the acre. 



The mofl ufeful application of this fort of crop is probably feeding of cows and 

 other forts of cattle, and the foiling of thefe as well as horfes, as it fprings more 

 rapidly than either faintfoin or burnet ; but it is likewife found to anfwer admi 

 rably for paflurage for iheep ; as it is lefs injured by clofe feeding than many other 

 plants.;}: 



&amp;lt;f In a comparative experiment made on a fmall piece of land of a wet, fandy, 

 friable, loamy foil, with marly bottom, drained, on a cabbage preparation, fowed 

 oats with chicory and various other feeds the oats were mown at harveft, but had 

 only been ufed as the means of laying down : in May, when the grades were mown 

 and weighed green, thofe with chicory were mod productive. No rain fell till 

 the nth and i2th of July, when it was very heavy. On the i4th of this month, 

 cut the chicory crop : the others had not any thing worth mowing. In Auguft, 

 cut all again, when the chicory crop had much the advantage in quantity. In 

 the after-grades alfo the chicory was the only one productive.&quot; From the whole 

 of the experiment it appears that the fuperiority of chicory in general, over other 

 plants in general, is very confiderable, which is a circumdance principally to be at 

 tended to. 



* Annals of Agriculture, vol. XX. f Ibid. vol. XVII. J Ibid. Ibid. 



