JANUARY. 41 



Upon sand, marl or cl?v -honk! bz laid on in 

 the proportion of 50 or 60 cubical ya-ds per a- ; 

 but on loose wet loams, upon which c-liy or rnarl 

 works a very great improvement, it should be laid 

 on to the quantity of 100 ynrds. The cheapest 

 way of doing it, is to contract for the r .vhoie job 

 with some little farmer, or horse-keeper, who w >rks 

 lor hire. In Suffolk, it is not uncommon to give Scl. 

 to 9cl. a cubical yard for all expences whatever, ex- 

 cept spreading, which accurate farmers choose to 

 do by the day, as a minute attention is in nothing 

 more important. If this be not well executed, 

 some spots in the field will have in the proportion 

 of 200 loads, and others not more than 50. 



If the yonng farmer wants any inducement to 

 undertake the work of marling, it will be best 

 found in the register of what his brethren have 

 done. 



Mr. Rodwdl's account of this operation is very 

 interesting. 



" My operations at first, were to inclose with 

 thorn hedges, marl or clay, and break up 30O 

 acres of the heath ; and in the first se u eii /ears 

 of the lease, I finished what I meant to improve' 

 in that term.. I marled or clayed 60O acres, at /O 

 loads an acre, being 42,000 large tumbril-loads. In 

 this work I employed three teams, two of my 

 own, and one I hired for several years-. It is severe 

 work, ami the second year I lost nine horses, attri- 

 buted to feeding on pea-straw from the new broken 



heath ; 



