21. NORFOLK. XS3 



The labour bellowed on marl previous to its 

 being put into the cart, whether it be incurred 

 by throwing down, loofening by pecks, crows, 

 &c. or fetching up the bottom, is termed 

 " calling"— the adt of throwing it into the cart 

 being called " filling."— The price of cafting 

 is three-pence to fix-pence a load, according to 

 the circumllances of the pit (the uncallovv- 

 ing being generally done by the day) ; and the 

 price for filling two-pence to two-pence half- 

 penny, according to the fize of the loads car- 

 ried. I have known three-pence a load given 

 for filling and fpreading large loads : the price 

 of fpreading, alone, is about one fhilling an 

 acre. The number of loads carried out in a 

 day by one team, varies, of courfe, with the 

 difiance to be carried : when the pit happens to 

 lie in or contiguous to the ground to be mar- 

 led, thirty loads have been carried ; — but five- 



and-twenty is, I believe, confidered as a good 

 day's work. 



The quavtity fet upon an acre is equally va- 

 rious ; depending upon two things : — upon the 

 judgement of the perfon who marls ; and up- 

 on whether the land has, or has not, been mar- 

 led heretofore. 



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