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In one case, for example, the owner was recalled 

 to his military duties, and, being unable to obtain 

 the services of an efficient manager, the original plan 

 of Cropping and accounts-keeping had to be 

 abandoned, just prior to the time when most 

 conclusive proof over a series of years of the greater 

 profits from Continuous Cropping would have been 

 forthcoming. 



It might also be mentioned that, apart from the 

 farms referred to above, a very large number of 

 farmers in these countries, prior to the commence- 

 ment of these experiments, had adopted in part, or 

 in whole, the Continuous Cropping method of tillage, 

 and although as is usual with farmers in general, no 

 definite accounts were kept, they invariably, year 

 by year, have extended the system. 



Particularly is this the case in County Limerick, 

 where for six years I was employed as County 

 Instructor under the Irish Department of Agriculture, 

 and in which county the original investigations of 

 the system were commenced. Here, perhaps I may 

 be pardoned for mentioning (but my main object is 

 to place before farmers generally facts showing how 

 farmers who have adopted my system have valued 

 it), that when I resigned my position in County 

 Limerick the farmers presented me with a purse of 

 sovereigns and an illuminated address referring, in 

 most glowing terms, to the utility of the Continuous 

 Cropping system. This address will ever be my most 

 cherished possession. 



CONDITIONS OF THE EXPERIMENT 



The main reason why it was decided to carry out 

 experiments on the farm, to which the subjoined 

 accounts refer, was because the land is what is 



