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spread before; but this not general, as clay .answers 

 best on the whole. 



" On (iO acres, ch:ycd 1OO loads an acre, I have 

 had, after two crops, the one turnips, the other 

 barley, cole-seed, and sold it on the ground for 

 1OOO guineas; then turnips, a famous crop, fol- 

 lowed by barley, on 75 acres, 16 coombs an acre 

 (the coomb is half a quarter) ; and by oats on 15 

 acres (poorer land), JO coombs an acre. These 

 crops are, for the soil, great; but in general my 

 products have been highly to my satisfaction." 



Since this account was written, I have heard of 

 !0d. per yard being given in Suffolk, to induce a 

 little fanner to set up a team strong enough for the 

 work. 



DRAW CHALK. 



*' The method pursued in Hertfordshire in chalk- 

 ing land is this ; and the persons employed therein 

 follow it as a trade : a spot is fixed upon, nearly 

 centrical to about six acres of land to be chalked. 

 Here a pit, about four feet in diameter, is sunk to 

 the chalk, if found within twenty feet from the 

 surface; if not, the chalkers consider that they are 

 on an- earth pillar ; fill up the pit, and sink in fresh 

 places, till their labour is attended with better suc- 

 cess. The pit, from the surface to the chalk, is 

 kept from falling in by a sort of basket-work, made 

 with hazel or willow rods and brushwood, cut 

 green, and manufactured .with the small boughs 



and 



