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Article LIV. 



On the Ufe of Chalk and Sea-Weeds. 



[By a Gentleman of Kent, to the Secretary.] 



TN anfvver to your enquiries about the ufe of 

 -"- chalk and fea-weeds, I will endeavour to inform 

 you all in my power. 



As to chalk, almoft half this county is a bed of 

 it. It is ufed with great fucce.fs on various kinds 

 of land, as clays efpecially, and fands; making light 

 the former, and binding the latter. We commonly 

 lay near one hundred cart-loads on an acre; each 

 cart-load containing thirty-two bufhels, Winchefter 

 meafure. We fpread it foon after it is brought, 

 and let it lie on the furface a good part of the 

 winter, that the froft may make it run, and incor- 

 porate the better with the foil. 



I have lately tried chalk on a piece of ground 

 the mereft fand that can well be, and found it to 

 anfwer well by fowing early peafe, and turnips 

 the fame year as foon as the peafe were off, and 

 feeding the turnips off with fheep. This I have 

 done for three years together, and found each fuc- 

 ceeding crop the beft. 



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