A REVOLUTION IN CORN-GROWING 77 



which will arise with that frame of mind that leads 

 one to regard every failure as just another step 

 towards success. 



THE WIBBERLEY WAY OF CORN- GROWING 



Prior to the war, the writer had devoted most of 

 his attention to the growing of fodder and forage 

 crops in connection with the Continuous Cropping 

 system. The reason for this was that practically all 

 his agricultural work was confined to Ireland. He 

 also held the opinion that the Irish small farmer 

 (85% of the farmers of Ireland, as I have said before, 

 have not more than 50 statute acres of land) could 

 obtain better results by producing crops for subse- 

 quent conversion into such easily marketable com- 

 modities as beef, mutton, pork, milk, and milk 

 products, rather than by attempting, handicapped as 

 they are by a wet climate, to compete as corn- 

 growers at pre-1914 prices with the foreign farmer. 



Even to-day, though corn prices are so much 

 higher than they were before the war, the writer 

 holds strongly to the view that corn-growing on the 

 ordinary tillage system generally is not capable of 

 being extended to any great extent on the old lines. 

 By extension is meant, not an insignificant increase 

 of 10% on the tillage area, but extension which 

 would eventually result in a grass field being as scarce 

 as a tilled field is now. 



NO WEATHER GUARANTEE 



There is also this point. The present high prices, 

 and the guaranteed prices, only pertain to the corn 

 and other crops when they are safely garnered. 



