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In Ireland, as shown by the following figures, we 

 have nearly double the spring rainfall which is 

 experienced in the Norfolk area, the actual figures 

 being as follows: — 



February 



March 



April 



Total 

 Average per month 



RAINFALL IN IRELAND 



The Irish figures are given here, because most of 

 the writer's work in connection with Continuous 

 Cropping has been carried out in Ireland, but a study 

 of the rainfall maps printed in this volume will show 

 that during the period referred to, for the South 

 Western and Western portions of England generally, 

 the whole of Wales, and the Western portion of 

 Scotland, — in short, in any district which, like 

 Ireland, has a high annual rainfall, the spring 

 precipitation, as in Ireland, is far greater than that 

 experienced in the Eastern English counties. 



HARVESTING RUSH AND RISK 



Not only have the cultural operations in connection 

 with the present system of root and corn-growing to 

 be performed during a brief and unsuitable climatic 

 period, but the garnering and harvesting of the crops 

 must also be undertaken under somewhat similar 

 adverse conditions. The month of August is usually 

 the harvest month. Now, in the Eastern Counties of 



