OCTOBER* 549 



who has seen the effect of this system, can value 

 the modern improvement at less than the rent of 

 the land. _ 



PLOUGH FOR MADDER. 



This is the right time to give the first stirring to 

 the land designed for madder. It requires great 

 depth of ploughing. Loams, that in common con- 

 versation are called clays, will, with a proper quan- 

 tity of dung, do for madder. The article of ma- 

 nuring is the soul of this culture; the plant delights 

 to grow in a dunghill, so that you need not fear 

 over- doing it. 



Let the farmer, however, determine to have no- 

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

 easy and safe mode of sale, unless he has previously 

 a>certained the certainty and price of the market. 



DIGGING FOR LIQUORICE. 

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

 mon at Pontefract, 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 is exactly propor- 

 tioned to the depth of the tillage. In this hus- 

 bandry, as in that of madder, the same land is pre- 

 ferable for successive crops, as one digging serves 

 both for the old crop and the new. For liquorice 

 you must manure very richly : it will not answer 

 well without this attention. Leave the land well 

 * ater-furrowed for the spring. 



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