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the sear through. Upon dry soils no dif 

 occur, but upon wet ones the teams can stir in win- 

 ter only, while the surface is frozen, unless it be 

 on lai/rrs of some years standing, and well drained. 

 Upon sand, marie or clay should be laid on, in 

 the proportion of 50 or 6.0 cubical yards per acre ; 

 but on loose wet loams, upon which clay or marie 

 works a very great improvement, it should be laid 

 on to the quantity of 10O yards. The cheapest 

 way of doing it is, to contract for the whole job 

 with some little farmer, or horse keeper, who works 

 for hire. In Suffolk, it is not uncommon to give 

 8d. a cubical yard for all cxpences whatever, except 

 spreading, which accurate farmers chnse to do by 

 the day, as a minute attention is in nothing more im- 

 portant. If this be not well executed, some spots 

 in the field will have in the proportion of 200 loads, 

 and others not more than 50. 



If the young farmer wants any inducement to 

 undertake the work of marling, it will be best 

 found in the register of what his brethren have 

 done. 



Mr. Rod Cell's account of this operation is very 

 interesting. 



" My operations at first, were to inclose with 

 " thorn hedges, marie or clay, and break up 300 

 " acres of the heath ; and in the first seven years 

 " of the lease I finished what I meant to improve 

 " in that term. I marled or clayed 60O acres, at 70 

 " loads an acre, being 42,OOO large tumbril loads. In 

 *' this work I employed three teams, two of my 



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