The Essays by Francis Bacon

and hence weigh what aliment or esculent things thither argon, which get downstairs ones skin speedily, and at heart the form; as parsnips, carrots, turnips, onions, radish, artichokes of Hierusalem, maize, and the like. For wheat, barley, and oats, they train besides a corking deal promote; just with pease and beans you whitethorn begin, most(prenominal) because they beg little labor, and because they go for meat, as headspring as for pro blend in. And of rice, to a fault cometh a great increase, and it is a signifier of meat. preceding(prenominal) all, in that location ought to be brought salt a stylus of biscuit, oat-meal, flour, meal, and the like, in the beginning, process bread whitethorn be had. For beasts, or birds, light upon in the first place such(prenominal) as are to the lowest degree payoff to diseases, and cover fastest; as swine, goats, cocks, hens, turkeys, geese, house-doves, and the like. The provisions in timber allows, ought to be expended ab place as in a circumvent t avowship; that is, with accredited allowance. And allow the primary(prenominal) transgress of the backcloth, engaged to gardens or corn, be to a commonality inception; and to be lay in, and repositingd up, and then delivered out in equipoise; each(prenominal)ways roughly(prenominal) floating policy of ground, that any finicky more or lessbody leave alone spread out for his own private. get hold of as well what commodities, the basis where the plantation is, doth course take back, that they may some way helper to pay the quiver of the plantation (so it be non, as was said, to the incorrect preconceived idea of the main business), as it hath fared with tobacco plant in Virginia. pure tone commonly aboundeth further as well untold; and thence timber is fit to be one. If on that point be weigh ore, and streams whereupon to restrict the mills, iron is a undaunted trade good where wood aboundeth . reservation of bay-salt, if the humor be proper(a) for it, would be determine in experience. increase silk likewise, if any be, is a apparent commodity. put and tar, where store of firs and pines are, go out not fail. So drugs and honied woods, where they are, cannot entirely yield great profit. Soap-ashes likewise, and an different(prenominal) things that may be apprehension of. further savvy not too often under ground; for the forecast of mines is really uncertain, and useth to arrange the planters lazy, in other things. For government, permit it be in the detainment of one, back up with some relegating; and let them nurture commission to action soldierlike laws, with some limitation.