410 MARLE. 



this must be governed by convenience. After a proper 

 time a second marling is as good as the first. 



Mr. Hill's father marled 350 acres o'f the Waterdea 

 farm, at 80 loads per acre ; he has done the rest of the 

 farm himself, 35 per acre, and never exceeding 40, think- 

 ing it much better to do it at twice than at once. The 

 colour is yellow and white mixed ; considers the yellow 

 as best. Spreads it to choose on a one year's layer ; and 

 in winter rather tlian in summer; leaves it a year, and 

 ploughs for the first time very shallow. Tlie first turnips 

 are not tlie better for it, but the barley great, especially 

 when it comes to the bushel. His rule, in after- manuring 

 is, to muck the first time, in preference to folding. His 

 father did one field, at the rate of 122 loads per acre, 

 which was so over-dosed, that the land has not recovered 

 it yet: the soil light. It has given but one good crop, 

 ■which was wheat, nine coombs three bushels (old mea- 

 sure) per acre : every other crop has failed more or less. 

 If Mr. Coke had not granted a second 21 years' lease of 

 this farm, the benefit, alter much loss, would all have 

 gone to others. 



On Mr. Reeve's farm, at Wi^hton, I saw an extia- 

 ordinarv fine white marie, not us in common, in globules, 

 but more resembling the equal consistence and texture of 

 -white butter. 



In all the light lands of Norfolk, clay, as it is called, 

 but which ought to be called clny marie, from the quantity 

 of calcareous earth it contains, is preferred much to more 

 chalky marls ; and of all others, the hard, cljalky, and 

 stony mails are reckoned the worst: when these only 

 (called also cork) arc found under tradls of waste or poor 

 land, they are not deemed improveable to profit. Mr. 

 OvERJMAN has made the experiment of such, and has 



found 



