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to the purpose. Comparative experiments, very easy to 

 make, would ascertain this point, which is certainly of 

 considerable importance. A prevailing idea in Norfolk 

 is, that long dung is best for strong land, and short for 

 light soils : the general pra6lice is that of spreading short 

 in all cases. But Mr. Denton's soil is sand*. 



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There Is a singular praiStlce at Yarmouth, which has 

 been common time out of mind, of littering all .stock, 

 such as horses, cows, &c. with sea-sand. A number of 

 Yarmouth one-horse or one-ass carts, are employed to 

 bring sand from the shore for this purpose, and it is done 

 the more largely, that the quantity of muck to sell to the 

 farmers may be the greater. Mr. Thurtell manures all 

 his turnips with this dung, and it is excellent. The sand 

 ought to be ten days or a fortniglit under the horses and 

 cows, being gradually drawn back with hoes, and fresh 

 supplied: many thousand loads are thus made annually; 

 and great quantities are taken into the country by the sail- 

 ing barges called kcsh. Ten large cart-loads per acre are 

 a good dressing, as much as three horses can draw. It 

 sells at 4s. a w.iggon-load in the town, and six of these 

 loads do an acre. Mr. Thurtell brings it all winter 

 long. He observes, however, that it is not durable ; the 

 chief force of it is exhausted in the turnips and following 

 barley.* 



Mr. EvERiTj ofCaistor, manured a field with par 

 yard-muck for turnips, but falling short two acres, he 

 finished that part with Yarmouth sand-muck: the turnips 



* Much information on this interesting question, is to be found in many 

 |f%;sages in the AnnaU oj Agrituliure, 



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