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Article XIV. 

 On the XJfe andEffedl (j/'Marle in Norfolk. 



[By a Gentleman Farmer in that county.] 

 Gentlemen, March, 1778. 



T^T anfwer to your enquiries refpeding the ufe of 

 -*• marie in this county, our farmers feldom lay it 

 on paflure, but conftantly on arable land, from 

 thirty to eighty, and, in fome inftances, to one 

 hundred loads per acre. By a load, I mean as 

 much as a cart and three horfes can draw. They 

 prefer laying \% on a clover and ray-grafs, or a 

 barley ftubble, or layer, a year before it is ploughed 

 in. By this means it is more intimately mixed with 

 the upper part of the foil, and will not be fo foon 

 buried by the plough, as when laid on and turned 

 in immediately. 



The marie moflly found with us is, a white pure 

 calcareous fubftance like chalk, but fat and un6cu- 

 ous. When it is met with of any other colour, 

 our farmers will fcarcely be perfuaded it can be 

 marie. This I experienced a few years fince, upon 

 difcovering in my park a fine light brown, or rather 

 dove-coloured marie, with every other property 

 like the white. 



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