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DRAW CHALK. 



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ct sal rule, on a second improvement, to lay clay 

 " on the fields marled before, sometimes marie 

 " where clay was spread before ; but this not ge- 

 " neral, as clay answers best on the whole. 



" On 90 acres, clayed 100 loads an acre, I have 

 " had, after two crops, the one turnips, the other 

 " barley, cole-seed, and sold it on the o round for 

 " 100O guineas : then turnips, a famous crop, fol- 

 " lowed by barley, on 75 acres, 16 coombs an 

 " acre (the coomb is 4; a quarter ;) and by oats oa 

 "15 acres (poorer land), 1O coombs an acre. 

 " These crops are, for the soil, great ; but in ge- 

 4C neral my produces have been highly to my satis- 

 " faction." 



Since this account was written, I have heard of 

 gd. per yard being given in Suffolk, and even as 

 far as lOd. offered, to induce a little farmer to set 

 up a team strong enough for the work. 

 DRAW CHALK. 



cc The method pursued in Hertfordshire in chalk - 

 kt ing land is this ; and the persons employed then-- 

 ;i in follow it as a trade : a spot is fi\cd upon, 

 " nearly centrical to about six acres of land to be 

 " chalked. Here a pit, about four feet in dinine- 

 " ter, is sunk to the chalk, if found within twenty 

 14 feet from the surface; if not, the chalkcrs ron- 

 " sider that they are on an earth pillar ; fill up 

 " the pit, and sink in fresh places, till their labour 

 attended with better success. The pit from 

 f< the surface to the chalk, is kept from falling in 



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