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about two and a half or three loads of hay at 

 the two mowings ; a load is thirty-iix truf- 

 les, of hfty-fix pounds each, or eighteen 

 hundred weight. 



In the article of manuring they are very 

 attentive ; indeed the poornefs of the foil 

 renders this highly requilite. 



Chalk the heft farmers among them ufe 

 in confiderable quantities. There is a ftra- 

 tum of it under all this country, but in 

 ibme places it liesiixty, feventy, and eighty 

 feet below the furface, in which cafe it does 

 not anfwer to get it ; the general depth i* 

 from ten to forty feet. The workmen who 

 make it their bufinefs to draw chalk, gene- 

 rally fix upon the lowefl places that are not 

 wet to fink their pits in : They dig them in 

 the nature of a well, and ufe a winch and 

 tub like a bucket, which holds about a 

 bufhel and three-quarters to wind up the 

 chalk. The common price is \d. per foot 

 for the well until they come at the chalk 

 pit; and 6d. a load of eighteen tubs of it, 

 laid in heaps about the pit. 



The farmers lay on from fifteen to thirty 

 loads an acre, which they reckon a good 

 drefiing, and will laft twelve or fifteen 

 years, and fometimes twenty, in tolerable 

 heart ; but as it is not a fat foapy kind, I 

 apprehend this quantity much too fmall ; 

 iixty, feventy, or eighty, and even a hun- 

 dred, would be of much more than a pro- 

 portional benefit. From. 



