20 FARMING ON FACTORY LINES 



through the schemes proving failures, farmers' minds 

 have been prejudiced against all schemes. 



For this reason, although the writer has now been 

 carrying out his investigations for a long number of 

 years, the publication of a book dealing fully with 

 the subject of Continuous Cropping has been deferred 

 until the present, when, largely owing to the good 

 offices of Sir Horace Plunkett, it is possible to place 

 before the public facts and figures proving the utility 

 and profitableness of Continuous Cropping beyond all 

 reasonable doubt. 



The subjoined balance-sheet and accounts relate to 

 an Irish farm, upon which, a few years ago, at the 

 instigation of Sir Horace Plunkett, it was decided to 

 test the value of the writer's system in a commercial 

 manner; the only test worthy of the slightest con- 

 sideration. Convincing as the results undoubtedly 

 are, the reader will at once advance the argument 

 that an isolated experiment only proves the need for 

 more experiments. In other words, the success of 

 a system on any one farm cannot be regarded as a 

 criterion of success elsewhere. 



SUDDEN INCREASE IN PRICES 



This is undoubtedly true, and for this reason, it 

 is necessary to make the statement that the writer 

 has by no means based his recommendations on the 

 results obtained from one farm. Simultaneously with 

 the commencement of the experiment on the 

 particular farm under review, the Continuous 

 Cropping method of farming was started on several 

 other farms distributed over a very wide area. 

 Unfortunately, in several of the latter cases, the 

 sudden increase in prices has resulted in profits being 

 made which are not in the least attributable to the 

 system of Continuous Cropping. 



