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subsoil to the surface, and costs quite as much, if not more, 

 than digging. 



The advantage which is looked for in ploughing, is to 

 ensure getting the roots up from a greater depth than can "be 

 done by digging, as a great number break off about 8 or 9 

 inches long, unless a boy is employed to assist the diggers, and 

 is very careful to pull the top at the precise time that the 

 man presses the root upward with his fork. 



"When dug, the tops should be neatly cut off, and the roots 

 conveyed to the washing-house to be cleaned. Sometimes 

 they are earthed in pits, but, generally speaking, they are 

 taken to the washing-house immediately after being dug up. 

 In the former case, on the Continent, the roots, with the 

 leaves cut off", are thrown, in heaps of from four to six feet in 

 length, width, and height, on the surface of the ground; 

 some straw and then some earth are put around. But 

 generally the growers deliver the roots to the manufacturers 

 from the latter end of August to November, by whom they 

 are immediately dried. 



The root is from 2 to 4 inches thick, 3 to 7 inches long, and 

 occasionally, in a good soil, 3 Ibs. in weight. In Brunswick 

 they obtain from 4 to 6 tons of root per Brunswick acre. 



The weight of the crop depends entirely upon the richness 

 or poverty of the soil, the tillage and manure it has received, 

 and other circumstances. The fault in England is the striving 

 to grow as heavy a crop as possible, to the very great detri- 

 ment of the quality of the root for powder. 



In Brunswick the price of the root in the original state 

 varies from 20s. to 40s. per ton, according as the crops have 

 been good or bad, and an acre will realise from 51. to 7Z. The 

 cost for cultivation is from 37. 15s. to 4Z. 10s. ; 1 J to 2 tons 

 is about an average crop. 



Mr. "William Strickuey, who has grown and prepared 

 chicory for the manufacturer to a very great extent, on a large 



