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The ordinary day's work of the fct above- 

 mentioned is twenty-five loads ; if the diflance 

 be very lliort, thirty loads are frequently car- 

 ried out : in this cafe, however, an additional 

 boy is reiljuired to afEfl: in levelling and form- 

 ing the heap. 



The filling is generally done by the load ;— - 

 another admirable pradlicc : the price one 

 penny a load ; a llriking inflance of the low 

 wages and hard work of this country. 



This prad:ice ought to be copied in every 

 country ; for it would, in moft places, be 

 cheaper to pay even three-pence a load, than 

 to have the dung cart filled by the day ; in 

 which cafe, the team is ever flanding idle until 

 ttie load be made up : whereas^ when the 

 filling is done by the load, that feldom hap- 

 pens. This accounts fufficiently for the extra- 

 ordinary number of loads carried in a day, h^ 

 Norfolk. 



For WHEAT, the remainder of the par-yard- 

 muck is generally, in the fpring, after the 

 cattle are turned out to grafs, turned up into 

 piles in the yards, where it remains until the 

 foil be prepared to receive it ;---the piles l^e- 

 ing by good farmers re-turned in the fummcr ; 



