OCT.] COLKSKS OF CROPS. 



Let the fanner, however, determine to have no- 

 thing to do with thfa, or with any crop not in an 

 easy and safe mode of sale, unless he has previously 

 ascertained the certainty and price of the market. 

 DIGGING FOR LIQUORICE. 



The best culture for this root, and which is com- 

 mon at Porikefrac'l, is to dig for it four or five feet 

 deep. This plant sends down only one tap-root, 

 like the carrot ; consequently the great profit of it, 

 is the length of the root, which it exactly propor- 

 tioned to the depth of the tillage. In this husbandry, 

 as in that of. madder, the same land is preferable for 

 successive crops, as one digging serves both for ths 

 old crop and th* new. For liquorice you must ma- 

 nure very richly : it will not answer well without this 

 attention. Leave the land well water-furrowed for 

 the spring. 



COURSES OF CROPS. 



I esteem this to be the most important sub 

 that has been treated of by the modern writers of 

 husbandry, and that on which they have thrown far 

 more light than upon any other circumstance in 

 agriculture. It is a very singular and remarkable 

 circumstance, that before the reign of his present 

 Majesty, notwithstanding the multitude of books 

 on Agriculture, there is not one author who had any 

 tolerable ideas upon this subject, or even annexed to 

 it any importance. They recite courses good, bad, 

 and execrable, in the same tone, as matters not. open 

 to praise or censure, and unconnected with any 

 principles that could throw light on the arrangement 

 < f fields. But, when once the idea was properly 



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