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found the benefit so great, that, direcily contrary to the 

 common opinion, he prefers them. I saw such used in 

 1792, on a very large scale on his farm. He spreads from 

 40 to 50 loads per acre. Such manuring prevents the anbury 

 ill turnips. 



Mr. H. Blythe, of Burnhnm, has no doubt of white 

 marie, on the sands of his farm, being better than clay ; 

 it works better and sooner, adding the expression, it vuill 

 buy a horse, before clay ivill buy the saddle. 



Mr. DuRSGATE has found white marie more profitable 

 than clay ; working much sooner; nor has he any objec- 

 tion to that hard chalk called cork. Of white marie Jic lays 

 on 50 to 60 loads an acre. 



Mr. Wrfght, of Stanhow, a very attentive and ex- 

 cellent farmer, has found, that the longer marie or clay is 

 kept on the surface the better. He spreads it on a lay of 

 one or two years old (the latter best), and leaves it a year; 

 then ricebaulks the land, leaving it so for the summer ; and 

 it gives as much food as if it had not been stirred, and 

 thus the marie works without being buried. He marls 

 largely, yet is clear that it is an enemy to grass and tur- 

 nips. 



Cork has been used successfully at Ringstead. 



Marie is found under all the country at Snettisham, 

 generally white ; the farmers lay on from 6o to lOO loads 

 an acre. 



Mr. GoDDisoN, at Houghton, laid, in six months, 

 3200 loads on 44 acres of very poor black-sand heath, and 

 broke it up ; the success great, and shall do as much more 

 this year. He pays 7d. a load, to a man who finds team 

 and every thing. 



Mr. Beck, at Castle Riseing, has clayed all his farm, 

 60 to 80 loads an acre, and covered the whole with Lynn 



muck. 



