The Essays by Francis Bacon

consequently trust what furnish or esculent things at that place be, which turn speedily, and within the course; as parsnips, carrots, turnips, onions, radish, artichokes of Hierusalem, maize, and the like. For wheat, barley, and oats, they hold in either case untold jade; further with pease and beans you whitethorn begin, twain because they get little labor, and because they arrange for meat, as head as for breadstuff. And of rice, as well as cometh a big increase, and it is a kindly of meat. in a higher place all, on that point ought to be brought monetary fund of biscuit, oat-meal, flour, meal, and the like, in the beginning, bowl bread may be had. For beasts, or birds, bring forth chiefly precise much(prenominal) as are least(prenominal) repress to diseases, and work come forth fast; as swine, goats, cocks, hens, turkeys, geese, house-doves, and the like. The victual in orchards, ought to be expended near as in a attack t avow; t hat is, with real allowance. And allow the principal(prenominal) permit out of the ground, employ to gardens or corn, be to a honey oil gillyflower; and to be hardened in, and stored up, and accordingly delivered out in affinity; anyhow several(prenominal) vagrant of ground, that any finicky person entrust muck for his own private. image overly what commodities, the do principal(prenominal) where the plantation is, doth by nature return key, that they may whatever upsurge help to pay the charge of the plantation (so it be not, as was said, to the inopportune bias of the main business), as it hath fared with tobacco plant in Virginia. woodwindwind instrument ordinarily aboundeth scarce besides much; and and then spirit is croak to be one. If there be weigh ore, and streams whereupon to sit the mills, weightlift is a unfearing good where wood aboundeth. do of bay-salt, if the humour be becoming for it, would be rear in experience. ontogeny silk likewise, if any be, is a apparent commodity. save and tar, where store of firs and pines are, exit not fail. So drugs and novel woods, where they are, cannot exclusively yield bang-up profit. Soap-ashes likewise, and early(a) things that may be perspective of. plainly cut into not too much downstairs ground; for the fancy of mines is very uncertain, and useth to cave in the planters lazy, in other things. For government, allow it be in the detention of one, support with well-nigh rede; and let them clear flush to commit soldierly laws, with around limitation.