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clay is an. excellent manure; but there are vast 

 tracts of such land, that cover very fine veins of 

 clay, and yet the farmers know nothing of the use 

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

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

 the ex pence 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, 

 and those hard ones that are flaky and different. 

 The first ought always to be ranked among the 

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

 properly chalk, and are of excellent use on many 

 soils ; they work a great improvement on light 

 sands and light loams : they have in many places 

 been used with great success on 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 expences of this im- 

 provement are the same as of mar! or clay, being 

 sometimes dug and thrown directly into carts, and 

 at others drawn up in buckets through shafts. 

 These variations are not of such importance as to 

 exclude the propriety of the improvement, even in 

 the most expensive countries. 



gMPTY 



