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an interval of time : but this farm falling into 

 the hands of a more judicious tenant, he has, 

 l^y marling, ('and by other ads of good ma- 

 nagement) accumulated, iii little more than 

 twenty years, a farmer's fortune ; during which 

 time he has marled upwards of one hundred 

 acres; and has found, from long experience, 

 that twenty-five loads an acre is, notwith Hand- 

 ing the recent marUng, a fufhcicnt quantity. 



I do not mean to intimate that the fame ma- 

 nagement would every where produce the lame 

 eflfedt; but I will venture to fay, that no man 

 having marl upon his premifes, ought to negled 

 to try its effe(5t, by accurate and repeated ex- 

 periments, upon every piece of land in his pof- 

 felFion, — without being led away by any re- 

 ceived notion,— or general rule. 



The quantity fet on, upon land which is 

 not known to have been marled, or out of 

 which the marl is worn, is, at prefcnt, Icfs 

 than formerly. 



In the fouthcrn Hundreds, to which marl is 

 obliged to be fetched a great diftancc, ten or 

 twelve loads are confidered as a drcffing ; iix 

 or eight arc frequently fet on. 



In the more central and northern parts of 

 t|ie Piftrid:, where marl is common on ^Imoft 



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