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full of marl, and was no doubt judicioufly 

 founded on experience. Marl, however, has 

 now, in fome mcafure, loft its efficacy ; and 

 it feems probable, that not only the time of 

 fowing wheat, but the very fyftem of Norfolk 

 hufbandry will require, ere long, to undergo 

 a confiderable change. Suffice it, however, 

 in this place to fay, that there are fome fen- 

 fible, judicious men, who already fee the folly 

 pf waiting for St. Faith's fair, before they 

 begin to fow their wheat. 



2. Preparing the seed.' — The ordinary 

 method of preparation is to fteep the feed in 

 brine, and candy it with lime, in a way limi* 

 lar to that praftifed in other counties ; and, 

 probably, with the fame effed:. 



There are, however, men in this county 

 who fpeak with firmnefs and confidence of that 

 they can prevent, by a preparation of the feed, 

 the fmut or ** brand" of wheat. They, like, 

 wife, feem clearly of opinion, that all wheat 

 would naturally become fmutty, if not checked 

 by a proper management of the feed ; but that 

 v/ere it become, through negled, as black as- 

 (mutitfelf, they would engage in three years 

 tiaie to eifecl a radical cure. The firft year, it 



