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barley, lo comb an acre; wheat, average 9 comb ; oats 

 20 comb sometimes, average 14; turnips, all for bullocks, 

 and generally in stalls. 



Improvement.-^— The chief improvement is the bringing 

 maile from Thorpe, near Norwich, by water ; notwith- 

 standing which conveyance it costs 4s, 6d. a cart-lo:.d, and 

 to 5s. or more on the land : they lay on 8 or 9 loads an acre, 

 "which lias more eiFedt than 40 or 50 of what they call 

 clav, though that has a good effervescence with acids. 

 The marie works sooner, and mixes better. The marshes 

 are very extensive, and have for centuries yielded much 

 stuff, as ruj;hes, &c. for making dung, and thus contri- 

 buted to the great fertility of much of this country. More 

 than 8 or 9 loads of marie is prejudicial for a time ; a 

 farmer in the neighbourhood tried 12 loads, and did mis- 

 chief at first. 



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