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the windward end of the lands, the team 

 wheeled round under the hedges, and took a 

 fr-efli width. 



The quantitj fct on was forty bufliels an acre. 



V. Manurin-c with rape-cake.-— Rapu- 

 cake is not a common manure in this Diftrift ; 

 but it is ufed by fome very good hufbandmen, 

 towards the north coafV : particularly by the 

 jiidicious manager mentioned, in this fedlion, 

 under the article marling *; who has not only 

 marled one hundred acres of land, which men 

 of lefs judgmiCiit than kimfclf confidered as 

 unimprovable by marl ; but ha<:, in the courfe 

 of about twenty )'ears, laid out eight 

 hundred pounds in rape-cake : and his fuccefs 

 is a ftriking evidence in favour of the doflrine 

 above held forth ; namely, that of applying 

 the dung wholly to the turncp-crop, and drcf- 

 fins for wheat with fome other manure. 



He fetches the cake fevcn or eipht m/ilcs, 

 from Cromer or Blakeney ; where it cofls him 

 from forty fhillings to three pounds a ton ; 

 <^ith which he drcfles three acres. Being prC' 



** IMr. Edmund Bu;d, of Plumftcad. 



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