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Chicory is now chiefly cultivated in Belgium, and in Germany 

 for the purpose of preparing from the root a powder as a substi- 

 tute for coffee and has now become quite an article of commerce. 



To have the roots in perfection, the seed should be drilled like 

 carrot, in April — //" sown sooner, they are apt to run to seed. The 

 land should be rich, deep and light. The plants should be thin- 

 ned out to six inches apart in the row and most carefully weeded. 

 In September the leaves should be gathered and the roots fork'ed 

 out of the ground. They must then be cleaned by washing and 

 scraping — split when thick and then cut across ifito pieces three 

 inches long and then dried in a slow oven or kiln — must not be- 

 scorched — when wanted for coffee, must be cut into small pieces, 

 roasted like coffee and ground like it in a mill. 



The roots left over the first year in the ground become stringy 

 and tough. It is only tlie root of the first year that is fit. They 

 lose largely in weight on drying — Thirteen pounds of seed will 

 drill aa acre — grass and corn are good before the chicory crop. 

 Rows a foot apart. 



The name chicory, is an anglicized French word being origin- 

 ally Chicoree or Endive. The Prussian chicory is the best. In 

 England dried cliicory is roasted like coffee and about two pounds 

 of lard are put into tlie roastor for every hundred ptnmds of chi- 

 cory to give the coffee a better face. Venetian red is put in to 

 odor it. Some put in logwood and mahogany dust also peas and 

 beans, damaged grain and coffee husks, technically called, cojfee 

 Jiights, parsnips go in too — treacle is in to give the caromel or 

 sugary odor of real chicory. Chicory is also used to adulterate 

 snuff and to color beer and porter. 



New chicory seed, is said to yield more woody and therefore 

 inferior roots than the old seed. 



Of course, we do not recommend chicory as a substitute for 

 poffee — but we do recommend it as a valuable food for stock. 



Lindley maples. Aceracae, from Latin acer, a maple tree — Eu- 

 rope, the temperate parts of Asia, north of India, and North. 



