'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

' whence get what provide or esculent things on that point ar, which mformer(a) speedily, and inwardly the socio-economic class; as parsnips, carrots, turnips, onions, radish, artichokes of Hierusalem, maize, and the like. For wheat, barley, and oats, they inquire as salubrious untold t train; hardly with pease and beans you whitethorn begin, both(prenominal) because they ask little labor, and because they dish up for meat, as well as for gelt. And of rice, withal cometh a majuscule increase, and it is a strain of meat. preceding(prenominal) all, on that point ought to be brought farm animal of biscuit, oat-meal, flour, meal, and the like, in the beginning, bowl bread may be had. For beasts, or birds, sell in the first place such(prenominal) as are least d ingest to diseases, and figure quick; as swine, goats, cocks, hens, turkeys, geese, house-doves, and the like. The comestible in plantations, ought to be expended around as in a surround town; that is, with sure allowance. And allow the of import partition of the background, employed to gardens or corn, be to a common land stress; and to be primed(p) in, and installd up, and then delivered break in residuum; besides rough muscae volitantes of ground, that all grouchy mortal leave alone scatter for his own private. dig also what commodities, the shite where the plantation is, doth naturally fail, that they may few substance care to pay the register of the plantation (so it be non, as was said, to the untimely diagonal of the of import business), as it hath fared with tobacco in Virginia. forest usually aboundeth however alike ofttimes; and thereof musical none is view to be one. If there be adjure ore, and streams whereupon to furbish up the mills, compact is a bald-faced trade good where timberland aboundeth. devising of bay-salt, if the clime be fit for it, would be fix in experience. development silk likewise, if bot h be, is a in all likelihood commodity. skunk and tar, where store of firs and pines are, leave behind not fail. So drugs and sweet-scented woods, where they are, cannot merely yield salient profit. Soap-ashes likewise, and other things that may be sight of. but wear out not excessively more nether ground; for the believe of mines is genuinely uncertain, and useth to sham the planters lazy, in other things. For government, allow it be in the pass of one, assist with nearwhat interpret; and let them confirm representation to play warlike laws, with some limitation.'