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but that which fmoaksthe leafl is be(l,and Charcoal for 
that Reafon is preferred to any other. 
What Quantity of Saffron a firfi: Crop will pro- 
duce is very uncertain. Sometimes five or fix Pounds 
of wet Chives are got from one Rood ; fometimes 
not above one or two, and fometimes not enough to 
make it worth while to gather and dry it. But this 
is always to be obferved, that about five Pounds of 
wet Saffron goto make one Pound of dry, for the firfi: 
three Weeks of the Crop, and fix Pounds during the 
laffc Week ; and now the Heads are planted very 
thick, two Pounds of dry’d Saffron may, at a Medi- 
um, be allow’d to an Acre for a firfi Crop, and four 
and twenty Pounds fo t he two remaining, the third 
being considerably larger than the fecond. 
In order to obtain thefe, there is only a Repeti- 
tion to be made every Year of the Labour of hough- 
ing, gathering, picking and drying in the fame man- 
ner as before fet down, without the Addition of any 
thing new:, except that they let Cattle into the Fields, 
after the Leaves are decay’d, to feed upon the Weeds; 
or perhaps mow them for the fame Ufe. 
About the Mtdfummer after the third Crop is gather- 
ed, the Roots mufl all be taken up and tranfplanted : 
TheManageraent requifite for which is the fourth Thing 
to be treated of. To take up the Saffron Heads, or break up 
the Ground, as their Term is, they fometimes plough it, 
fometimes ufe a forked Kind of Hough called a Pattock, 
and then the Ground is harrowed once or twice over , du- 
ring all which Time of ploughing, or digging and har- 
rowing, fifteen or more People will find Work enough 
to follow and gather the Heads as they are turned up. 
They are next to be carried to the Houfe in Sacks, 
and there to be clean’d or rafed. This Labour con- 
fiffs in clearing the Roots thoroughly from Earth, and 
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