4,06 MARLE. 



done by the landlord, who contra£led for the work, pay- 

 ing by tlie load ; and this was the cause of an evil, felt to 

 this day ; they laid on a great deal too much near the pits, 

 and too little at a distance : the soil in the former situation 

 now tills badly, insomuch that Mr. Fowell wishes it had 

 not been done at all. The marie is yellow, from the mix- 

 ture of clay, but feiments strongly with acids. 



All the country about Watton has been marled (clayed, 

 as they call it), and the general way has been to do it 

 \jpon the first breaking up of all old grass. They take two 

 crops of oats in succession, and then clay for turnips, 40 

 to 60 loads an acre. 



Mr. Salter, at Winborough, in seven years has 

 clayed, as it is called, 100 acres, at 100 loads an acre ; a 

 quantity which he thinks necessary on his soil, which is 

 a wet loam, or springy sand, and also brick earth ; but 

 observed, that if so much was to be iaid on the drv Nor- 

 folk sands, they would be set fast, and it would be many 

 years before the clay would work. 



All Mr. Johnson's farm at Kempstcn is marled : he 

 approves of doing it at twice, rather than giving the full 

 quantity at once. 



The country about Thorpe Abbots, has, in general, 

 been clayed ; and on the gravels it answered greatly. 

 But some being done on Mr. Pitt's farm a second time, 

 it did more harm than good. 



The hundreds of Loddon and Clavering have all been 

 clayed. 1 observed many pits of clay marie every where. 

 At Langley, they now bring white marie from Thorpe, 

 near Norwich, by water; laying on 12 loads per acre, at 

 4s. 6d. from the keel, barge, and costs 5s. on the land. 



Caistor and the vicinity, has all been clayed, 40 loads 

 per acre. 



Mr. Ever IT marls from Wightlingham, at 5s. a 



load, 



