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analogy, with however this difference, that it will continue rc.uch 

 longer in the land. 



When the marl lands are laid down to grasses, trefoil or white 

 Dutch clover, is sown in the proportion of 71b. to 2olb. of marl 

 grass or broad clover, which enriches, diversifies, and by its early 

 vegetation and blossoming, produces a carpet the most beautiful 

 and picturesque that can well be imagined. 



Marie has been repeatedly tried on the looser red earth lands, and 

 -on the freestone grit soil, in different parts of the district, with- 

 out producing any good effect. It has also been carried some miles 

 out of the district, and applied to the light red earth of the lime- 

 stone lands, with no better success. Though it may be affirmed of 

 the marl lands, that the luxuriance of the pasturage, the early 

 vegetation in the spring, with little or no suspension (except ia 

 severe frosts) during winter, and their vicinity to Bath, equally 

 concur to render dairies a very eligible, as it is a general mode of 

 occupation, yet notwithstanding on the larger farms, if a greater 

 proportion were devoted to tillage, since they produce wheat and 

 barley of excellent quality, and require, under a judicious routine 

 of crops, no manure, but the first marling, for twenty-five or 

 thirty years, both landlord and tenant would derive considerable 

 advantage therefrom. 



The landlord might levy an additional rent of ten shillings per 

 acre on the lands so converted to arable, under a lease of twenty- 

 one years ; compelling the tenant to dress with marl four years pre- 

 vious to the expiration of the term, by which means they would 

 be left, in the highest possible state of proof. 



The tenant would be amply repaid his advance of rent, not only 



by the general certainty and superabundance of his crops ; but by 



the application of the Barton, and stall manure, arising therefrom 



to his red earth lands ; which he may well do without injury to the 



former, and thereby find an equivalent in their improved state for 



the advanced rent. 



Rational and well-founded as this change of management must 



appear to every intelligent and unprejudiced man, it has neverthe- 

 less many formidable obstacles to encounter. The landlord's 

 groundless apprehensions of injury to his lands, under even a well 

 regulated course of tillage, his prepossession in favour of dairies 

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