'-> DRAW CHALK, [JAN. 



* fc lieight and width to admit of the pit -man's 

 " working in them with case and safety. One pit 

 " will chalk six acres, laying sixty loads on an 

 " acre. If more be laid on. and to the full ex- 

 " tent of chalking, viz. 1OO loads, then a propor- 

 '" tionable less extent of land than six acres is 

 " chalked from one pit. Eighteen barrow-fulls 

 " make a load, and the usual price for chalking is 

 " 7d, per load, allexpences included; therefore the 

 <c ex pence of chalking, at sixty loads per acre, is 

 " ll. 12s. 6d. ; and at 10O ditto, 2l. 18s. 4d. 

 " As the chalk is considered to be better the 

 tc deeper it lies, and the top chalk particularly, if 

 <J it lie within three or four feet of the surface very 

 " indifferent, and only fit for lime, or to be laid on 

 <c roads, gateways, &c. the chalkers must be di- 

 " reeled to lay by the chalk for the first three or 

 " four feet in depth, to be applied to the above 

 % " piu-poses, or if not wanted, to be again thrown 

 * c into the pit when filled up ; and also to pick 

 fci out the flints from the chalk before it is carried 

 " on the land, for if they are not narrowly watched, 

 " they will chalk with both. 



Mr. John Hill, of Coddicot, farms upwards 

 <{ of t2(>(> acres in the adjoining parishes of 

 '- Coddicot. arul Kimpton, a considerable part of 

 4i which is his own estate. He has chalked many 

 11 acres of laud, and approves much of the prac- 

 <; tice. He chalked a field of strong clay-land in 

 ( ' the autumn of 17Q3, laid on s-ixty loads to an 



" acre, 



