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TKe gathering and picking of one pound of Safron is 
worth one (hilling, which cometh to twelve killings f&r 
Acre. 
The Fire and care of drying niay come to 3 (hillings more, 
at 6 pence the pound ; which is in all 1 5 ihillings. 
The Grafs that is mowed and cutoff the ground for the 
ufe of Catte!;, will be very near worth as much as will coun- 
tervail the picking and drying the Saffron \ the Soy! being 
inrich'd not only by the Dung, but the Saffron it felf, as ap- 
pears by the rich crops the ground yields for feveral years 
after without any other manuring or improvemenr. 
Sixteen Quarters of S^jfr^^;^ heads are fufficient to plant 
one Acre. A Quarter of thefe Heads is ufuaily fold in the 
place for 10 (hillings, which comes to 8 pounds per Acre. 
Twenty Loads of rotfen Dung laid on the ground , may 
be worth 40 (hillings ac 1 2 pence a Load for the Dung^ and 
as much for carnage into the Field. 
For thrice ploughing the ground Qo fliillings* , 
For planting the Heads about 4 pounds. Which ia the 
whole makes 1 4 pounds, the charges.of pdaming^an Acre, 
which will bear three crops. : T .-^t t r ? ^^-h ry'r 
So that all things reafonably computed it appeacs, that 
anAcreof S^j^*?^ will be worth, notwithftandiDg all cafu- 
alties, one year with another, over and above the 14 pounds 
charges, for the firft years planting fat theleafr) 20 pounds 
per annum. Befides the great increafe of the Saffron htdids^ 
which will be as three for one* 
m Kiln. 
It confifts of an Oaken- Frame,Iathed on every fide,rvi''elve 
inches fquare in the bottom, two foot high, and two foot 
fquare at the top ; upon which is nailed a Hair-cloth , and 
ftrained hard by wedges drove into thefides;a fquare Board 
and a Weight to prefs it down^ weighing about a quaner of 
a hundred. 
The infides of the Kiln cover'd all over with the ftrongeft 
Potters-clay, very well wrought with a little Sand, a lutle 
above two inches thick. 
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