328 Chicory . 
December, he cut it again, and obtained at the rate of 9 tons 1 4 cwt. 
per acre ; in all, 38 tons and 9 cwt. of grass. This, on losing three 
fourths in drying, would have yielded upwards of 9 tons of Hay. 
But these experiments being made on a small scale, fur- 
nished no criterion for a regular course of husbandry, in which 
chicory should form a permanent part of the meadow crop ; 
he proceeded therefore in sowing it, till in the spring of 1792, 
he had 14x60=74 acres, either entirely or partially sown with 
chicory. The other grasses he sowed with it, were the red 
clover, and timothy, rib grass, poa trivialis or common meadow 
grass, and these were sown with the chicory on the principle that 
as this grass does not tiller, the other accompanying grasses fill up 
the ground and make a full, close sward. It may be noted, that in 
England, chicory appears as one of the earliest spring grasses, 
being from 3 to 4 inches high on a poor soil on the 1 1th of May : 
but yet, not so early as the avena elatior the tall oat grass, or the 
rough cock’s foot, dactylus glomeratus. By this time Young had 
ascertained, 1 st. that though a perennial, it will not bear frequent 
seeding without being impoverished : and 2ly. that it is better to 
cut it after the first year at least 3 if not 4 times, in the course of 
the season. In this year he has registered the feeding of 58| acres 
of chicory alone, or with other grasses, by means of sheep. In- 
deed, all cattle, horses, oxen, sheep and swine eat it greedily. 
This experiment appears to have turned out very satisfactorily, 
but it is too long to repeat here. The subsequent numbers of the 
annals of agriculture contain notices by the editor himself, though 
few by other persons. In the volume for 1799, 1 find the follow- 
ing note. “ If the reader turns to vol. 28, p. 386, he will find an ac- 
u count of chicory by Mr. Martin of Northampton : meeting him 
this year at the Duke of Bedford’s sheep shearing, he informed 
“ me that in the present season he has nothing on his farm, no plant 
u or crop whatever, that will keep half the stock which his chi- 
a cory will, though it be four years old.” 
His account of the French husbandry of chicory may be 
found in the 2nd vol. of the tour to France p. 62. 
In addition to this, I may add, that in the year 1793, Mr. Roscoe 
of Liverpool, walked with me to see Mr. Wakefield’s Dairy farm 
about 14 mile from the town. 
Mr. Wakefield had sown in 1793 about 3 acres, and cut it 3 
times in 12 weeks: the whole was given to 10 heavy working 
horses, who went through their common labour upon it without hay 
