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threepence to threepence-halfpenny per cubical 

 yard, the filling and spreading; and about four- 

 pcnce-halfpenny for the teams, carts, and drivers : 

 in all, eightpence per load, or cubical yard, or three 

 pounds six shillings and eightpence per hundred 

 loads. This will be a proper quantity for an acre 

 of land: the benefit will last for twenty years, and 

 -the land always be the better for it. 



DIG CLAY. 



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

 places, is to be found at a moderate depth. This 

 manure has few of the properties by which marl 

 is to be known ; but yet it works wonderful im- 

 provements on many soils. In some light lands it 

 has been preferred by many very good farmers to 

 indifferent sorts of marl ; and this preference ha$ 

 been the result of attentive experience. 



But the great point concerning clay is not so 

 much the comparison with marl, as the use of it 

 where no marl is to be had. On all light sandy 

 soils it should be used with a confidence of suc- 

 cess ; for the precedents of its good effects are so 

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

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

 game expence as of marl, will work an improve- 

 ment great enough to shew how much mistaken 

 those men are, who think nothing but the finest 

 marls 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 



