GENERAL Succuss or THE SystEM.—This has been shown
most conspicuously in the case of the Inner Kaimrig, a field pro-
nounced by a very competent judge to be, when I took it in hand,
not worth 5s. an acre, and, by the former tenant, the worst field
on the farm, a long ridge of it being black moorland soil. And
yet this field, now (1904) young grass (sown up with a crop of
oats in 1903), has this year kept more stock than all the fields of
an adjacent farm, the land of which is far superior in quality and
situation. These aggregate over 87 acres, while the Kaimrig
field is only 25 acres. The field* has never been manured since it
was enclosed from the hill about 70 years ago excepting with
some artificials for the turnips, and, as shown in the Preface,
there is practically no cake fed on the farm. This field has far
exceeded my utmost expectations, and is a most valuable practical
illustration of what poor, worn-out land is capable of producing if
you clothe it with a deeply-rooted turf which has been built up
on a strong leguminous foundation of clover and kidney vetch.
Next to the Kaimrig lies the East Countridge field, now (1904)
in turnips out of grass. Though for the last two years I had
successfully grown on a small scale turnips without any manure,
this is the first whole field in which I have had the moral courage
to grow this crop without manure of any kind excepting turf.
