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it does not lay very deep, is to open a sloping 

 nouth, sinking the pit gradually, wide enough for 

 cart to drive in and out ; and, when you come to 

 ;ie marie, to work it away circularly, and to keep 

 pit ten or fifteen feet deep, by which means the 

 xpence of filling the. carts will be much lessened, 

 he expence of marling, when it is thrown in this 

 lanner into the cart, will be, upon an average, 

 ireepence to threepence-halfpenny per cubical yard, 

 le filling and spreading ; and about fourpence- 

 alfpenny for the teams, carts, and drivers i in all, 

 ightpence per load, or cubical yard, or three 

 pounds six shillings and eightpence per hundred 

 oads. This will be a proper quantity for an acre 

 f land : the benefit will last for twenty years^ and 

 be land always be the better for it* 

 DIG CLAY. 



Where marie is not to be had, clay, in many 

 laces, is to be found at a moderate depth* This 

 manure has few of the properties by which marie 

 to be known ; but yet it works wonderful im- 

 rovernents on many soils. In some light lands it 

 las been preferred by many very good farmers to 

 ndifferent sorts of marie ; and this preference has 

 een the result of attentive experience. 



But the great point concerning clay is not so 

 mich the comparison with marie, as the use of it 

 here no marie is to be had. On all light sandy 

 soils it should be used with a confidence of sue- 

 *ess ; for the precedents of its good effects are so 

 uimerous, that we cannot have a doubt of its excel - 

 B b lence. 



