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On New Jersey Marls. By George Craft, 



Near Woodbury, 4th Mo. 28th, 1815, 



I HAVE been within the<;e ^ew days past, to look at the 

 effects of the marl in different places, and it would as- 

 tonish thee to see the difference from only putting about 

 one bushel of marl, to one square rod on land that is very 

 poor ; it makes it have the appearance of land in a high 

 state of cultivation. I saw last season, clover lodge on 

 land of the above description, which had been marled as 

 above described, and was told by one of my friends, that 

 where he had marled some last spring, he had mowed a 

 good crop of clover, and where he did not marl, it was 

 not worth mowing : — that he sowed the ground with 

 wheat last fall, and that there is an evident difference al- 

 ready. Where I put marl last season on some Indian 

 grass it has become a mat of white clover, and in almost 

 every instance that I have seen it is the case, although it 

 has sometimes not taken until the second season. I saw 

 a place where the meadow was not worth mowing until 

 it was marled, and part of it the first season mowed a 

 good crop, and on the other it had no effect, until the 

 second year, and then there was litde difference. 



Thy friend, George Craft. 



P. S. Thou may be assured I think highly of marl, 

 for I have hauled 200 loads last winter, although I have 

 to cart it five miles, 



B. B. Ho-well 



