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land would produce about two tons per acre, and the cost of 
cultivation would be about £12 or £14 per acre. It was 
said to be a profitable crop, and many farmers grew it in the 
neighbourhood of York. 
Mr. Milne s said he had seen a large quantity growing in 
Suffolk, where there was a large mill for its manufacture 
into the article as required for use. In confirmation of Mr. 
Wilkinson's statement, as to the difficulty of getting genuine 
coffee, he might mention that in the East he hardly ever got 
any coffee which did not turn out to be West Indian coffee. 
The product of the East was so very small as to make it a 
very dear article. He believed the proportion of chicory 
mixed with coffee in France was extremely large. 
Mr. Wilkinson said the quantity of chicory was twenty 
per cent, to the coffee. He had used it so for several years, 
and could speak to the fact that he had had no ill result 
from it. 
ON MILK, AS AN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND AN 
ARTICLE OF FOOD. BY JAMES HAYWOOD, ESQ. 
The milk of the cow, ewe, and goat has, from the most 
remote ages, been used as an article of food ; but on account 
of the superior flavour of that produced by the cow, it has 
in modern times, in this country at least, been the only kind 
employed to any extent. The production of cows' milk has, 
in fact, now become the sole object of a very extensive and 
important branch of agriculture, namely, the dairy husbandry. 
It is a great commercial object in its natural form, as well as 
that of cream, in large towns, and a still greater commercial 
object in the form of butter and cheese in all the country 
districts ; and in all its forms it constitutes a large article of 
ordinary diet to multitudes of the rural population. In order 
that I may the more effectually show its intrinsic value as 
an article of food, and point out the economy which would 
