not hold these observations in contempt. There 

 Appears to me almost as much use in mentioning 

 trials that were unsuccessful, as in those that are 

 the most profitable ; for it is certainly of as much 

 consequence to tell one man that his soil will not 

 do for madder, as to assure another that his will 

 do. Instead of an acre or two, I might possibly 

 have launched (like many others) into JO or 15 

 acres, in which case the loss would have been no 

 trifle. And it surely is highly incumbent on every 

 one, to make known to the world such of his ex- 

 perience as will probably be of any use to it. Bad 

 success, however, of several persons in a culture, is 

 too apt to prejudice others in general against it. 

 However irrational, still it is so, and it ought to be 

 a caution not to recommend any thing in general, 

 under the extravagant notion, that because an arti* 

 cle of culture is profitable on one soil, it must be 

 the same on very different ones. But the grand 

 obstacle to the culture of madder is the difficulty 

 of sale : for while a man has not a fair market 

 for his unmanufactured madder, none can with 

 nny prudence engage in it., unless on so large a 

 scale as to admit the whole apparatus of reducing 

 it to such a state, as to be absolutely a marketable 

 commodity. In answer to this, it may be said, 

 that madder really dry is a marketable commodi/^ 

 But this matters not, if the purchaser has it in hi 

 power to be a knave : he lias a pretence, a screen 

 always at hand, that will cloak the greatest knavery, 

 a degree known, in no other branch of agri* 



culture. 



