37O DIG CHALK, [JUNE. 



Jence. About sixty or seventy loads an acre, at the 

 same expence as of marie, will work an improve- 

 ment great enough to shew how much mistaken 

 those men are, who think nothing but the finest 

 inarles worthy of attention ; and upon heavier 

 soils, such as wet loams, brick-earths upon clay, 

 and loose hollow soils, that want a firmer texture, 

 clay is an excellent manure ; but there are vast 

 tracls, of such land, that cover very fine veins of 

 clay, and yet the farmers know nothing of the use 

 of it. It is much to be regretted that their land- 

 lords do not give them a juster idea, by being at 

 the expence of claying some small fields, until the 

 benefit of the improvement becomes conspicuous. 



DIG CHALK. 



Chalk is a manure common in many parts of the 

 kingdom, and this month is a very proper season 

 for digging it. A distinction is here to be made 

 between the chalks that are of the fat soapy kind y 

 and those hard ones that are flakcy and different. 

 first ought always to be ranked among the 

 niarles, for such they really are ; but the latter is 

 properly chalk, and are of excellent use on many 

 work a great improvement on light 

 sands and light loams : they have in many places 

 been used with 'Hi gravels; and on 



clayey loams and clays they do extremely well, 

 mellowing them greatly, and bringing them into 

 much better order for ploughing, and much earlier 

 in the spring, which, on- such soils, is always a 

 matter of consequence. The expenccs of this im- 

 provement 



