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mended, are generally fo dry, that they are 

 all under the plough, (except uncultivated 

 ones, which I am not confidering here) To 

 the bufinefs will only confift in fpreading 

 the manure on the land, and leaving the 

 tenant to plough it in of courfe. 



If the improvements are undertaken, 

 while the old tenants are on the farms; or 

 if teams can in the neighbourhood be con^ 

 traSiediox in fufficient numbers to carry all 

 the manure at a cheap rate and in a cer- 

 tain time, the gentleman I think in this, 

 as in allother cafes, fhould avoid incum- 

 bering himfelf with the purchafing and 

 keeping teams and carts; but improve- 

 ments of this fort fliould not therefore be 

 given up or omitted — they are profitable 

 enough to pay all expences. The labour- 

 ers who dig, fill, and fpread the marie, 

 muft all be paid by the great, which is the 

 cuftom in thefe improvements, I believe, 

 in every part of England. 



The quantity laid per acre, fnould be 

 large, if you wifli for a great and lafting 

 improvement. In Norfolk, where their 

 marie is very rich, fat, and foapy, they lay 

 on fo much as from 80 to loo loads, each 

 30 bufhels; and very feldom, if ever, find 



that 



