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Agriculture of Norfolk. 
IjOads of Clay- 
1. 
Brets Field . 
. 13 
2 
37 
1 964 
2. 
Kast Field . . 
. 11 
0 
16 
524 
3. 
12 Acres • • • 
. 12 
2 
21 
1,780 
4. 
1 1 Acres • • . 
. 12 
2 
0 
1^770 
5. 
13 Acres ■ • • 
. 13 
2 
26 
320 
6. 
Bam Close • . 
. 17 
I 
6 
3,407 
7. 
Park Piece 
. 24 
0 
10 
2,163 
8. 
Chapel Field 
. 20 
3 
34 
2,310 
9. 
Town Close . , 
. 11 
3 
16 
3,634 
10. 
The Sinks . . 
6 
0 
7 
2,895 
11. 
Moor Field . . 
. 21 
3 
8 
5,545 
12. 
Forston Lot . . 
. 10 
3 
16 
3,451 
13. 
Thorp Lot . , 
. 24 
1 
29 
4,900 
14. 
Barn Lot . . 
. 26 
3 
33 
5,852 
15. 
Chisvvick Lot . 
. 23 
I 
11 
5,920 
16. 
Warren Lot . 
. 22 
2 
22 
5,280 
17. 
The Graziugs 
. 12 
3 
13 
2,340 
286 
2 
25 
54,055 
Thus 54,05.5 loads have been applied to 286a. 2r. 25p., or, on 
an average, 188 loads per acre ; but, if we observe the quantities 
named opposite each field, the real quantity allowed per acre has 
varied greatly, according to circumstances. Of course this in- 
cludes repeated clayings to some of the fields. There are now 
several acres of clay-pits on the farm, rendered in some degree 
ornamental by being planted, and forming lasting proofs of the 
persevering spirit of Mr. Cambridge. His farm is selected as a 
favourable specimen of what has been done for the soil in Norfolk, 
and to account for its present productive state ; but, so far from 
being a solitary instance of such improvements, the practice has 
been almost universal throughout the county, the quantity of clay 
applied varying according to circumstances. Mr. Keppel, of 
Lexham Hall, has made great improvement in his light sandy 
land, by claying it at the rate of 50 loads per acre.* Near SwafF- 
ham I observed some men claying a field from a pit nearly in the 
centre of it; they were paid at the rate of one halfpenny per 
barrowfull, or Id. per " load their orders being to apply 80 such 
loads per acre ; making the cost of it under 50s., though the work 
was done without the use of horses ; employment being thus found 
for more labourers, without fear, too, of injury to the land by its 
being cut in using carts when not sufficiently dry. Tlie propriety 
of using carts, or barrows only, must depend on the distance of 
the clay from the land where it is wanted, and the abundance or 
scarcity of manual labour to be obtained. It is hardly necessary 
to repeat, that each of these circumstances has its effect on the 
cost; so that no price can be named which would apj)ly in all 
situations. Mr. Hudson leaves a small part of each land, or 
♦ Mr. Hudson states, that the late Mr. Garwood of W. Lexham clayed 
or marled upwards of 1000 acres twice over, at the rate of 40 loads pev 
acre each time, during the first eight years of his lease. 
