JUNE.] DIG MAttLE. 36j 



DIG MARLE. 



This is a good season for marling land: one of 

 the most important works that can be done in 

 husbandry. All farmers, that have marie under 

 their fields and do not make use of such a treasure, 

 are to be condemned. 



In some countries, it is the common manure ; 

 and almost e\ T ery where to be found when dug for ; 

 in such places, the farmers have nothing to do but 

 to resolve on the under caking : they all acknow- 

 ledge the expediency of the work, and seldom dis- 

 pute the great profit of it ; but, in other parts, the 

 knowledge of marie is very confined. It may per- 

 haps be discovered half a century before it comes 

 into general use. In tra&s of waste land, or sheep 

 walks and warrens, let at a shilling, or two shill- 

 ings and sixpence an acre, mane being discovered, 

 and rendering such land capable of yielding noble 

 crops of turnips, clover, and all sorts of grain and 

 pulse ; the uncommon effecl, and the amazing ad- 

 vantages made by it are so striking, that the use 

 spreads fast. But, on the contrary, when marie 

 is found under richer soils (inclosed countries, for 

 instance, of ten or twelve shillings an acre), the case 

 is different : it will not make such an improvement 

 as on the poorer lands ; and, as great fortunes are 

 not suddenly made by the use of it, the farmers in 

 some districts will not be persuaded to use it with 

 any spirit, possibly, not at all : they think that a 

 rent> comparatively higher than the other tracts, 

 will not allow of their spending such sums about 



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