3*4 



M I N U T E S 



OCT. 



136. 



JfARLING. 



WATER- 

 MARK! AC I. 



The marl, (fuppofe eighteen chal- . s. d. 

 drons) at two Ihil lings - - - i 16 o 



Filling it at the ftaith ; carting to 

 a medium diftance, and fpreading 

 about, fifteen-pence a load, - 126 



Expence per acre, 



18 6 



With the marl ought to be, and frequently 

 is, laid on a quantity of Yarmouth muck, 

 equal, in expence, to the marl. 



After this dreffing, for about ten years, the 

 foil (a fandy loam, but ftronger and deeper 

 than the Norfolk foil in general) throws out 

 very great crops ; and, with the ufual teathe 

 and ordinary dungings, will feel the effect of 

 the marl for ten years longer. 



Before the ufe of marl (which has not been 

 brought by water, I apprehend, above ten or 

 fifteen years) the farmers could grow no tur- 

 neps ; the land letting for ten or twelve Shil- 

 lings an acre : now, the turneps upon it are 

 remarkably fine; and the land lets at full 

 twenty {hillings an acre : a rent the occupiers 

 could not pay, were it not for marl. 



The .diftance between Wood-Bafhvick and 

 the marl-pits at Thorp next Norwich, is not, 



by 



