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ohalk i8 more operative and lafting. Thirty wag. 

 gon-Joads, of forty bulhels each, are generally laid 

 on an acre, and lad from ten to fifteen years. It 

 is, however, the general opinion, that a fecond 

 chalking is of little fervice. Their chalk is of a 

 hard kind, both blue and white; the former, 1 

 think, nnight with greater propriety be called marie, 

 as in texture and quality it very much reiembles the 

 blue marie found in Somerfetfhire ; but with this 

 difference, that in puuing it in vinegar the efFer- 

 vefcence is not fo ftrong. Of this kind they lay 

 twenty loads on an acre; and I was told that in 

 lands thus chalked more than thirty years fmce, the 

 benefit is ftill very apparent. 



In fundry articles of good hufbandry the farmers 

 in general feem dill very remifs. They neither 

 gather in their ftubbles, nor confine their cattle to 

 the farm-yard in winter. Hence their flock of 

 farm-yard manure is fmall in comparifon of what 

 it otherwiie might be : add to this, that, they are 

 not in the pradice of digging up the borders of 

 their fields, or mixing up heaps of compoft. 



In thofe parts contiguous to Newport and Weft- 

 Cowes, the foil is naturally the leaft fertile; but as 

 great quantities of liable dung are made in thofc 



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