CONTINUOUS CROPPING ROTATIONS 191 



the sale of Irish produced whole milk and cream in 

 the British market by still better organised transit 

 facilities, and by the possibilities of increasing his 

 milk output presented by adopting the Continuous 

 Cropping system. In a pamphlet written by Sir 

 Horace Plunkett, and published by the Irish Organisa- 

 tion Society, Sir Horace quotes the case of Menabela 

 Bridge, a Co-operative Society in Co. Limerick: — " A 

 mountainy district where the land was poor." There 

 a body of farmers, at the writer's suggestion formed 

 themselves into a co-operative implement society, and 

 at the same time commenced to till a portion of their 

 holdings on the Continuous Cropping system. The 

 Secretary of the Society, in a letter to Sir Horace 

 Plunkett, informed the latter " that in two years' 

 time, by the adoption of the co-operative implement 

 scheme and Continuous Cropping (Sir Horace Plunkett 

 refers to the conjoint operations as " Wibberleyism ") 

 the farmers had increased their milk supply to the 

 Menabela Creamery (which is also co-operative) from 

 188,000 to 317,000 gallons." 



Sir Horace explains in his pamphlet: — " There was 

 nothing specially favourable in the district to make 

 one expect such a startling result, but there is in the 

 result the happiest augury for the revolution in our 

 agriculture which I am convinced needs nothing more 

 than a reversion to the Recess Committee policy and 

 an acceptance of the Department of Ireland's idea of 

 rural reconstruction — a policy which has won the ap- 

 proval of statesmen, economists and social reformers 

 throughout the English speaking world." 



THE SAFETY OF GRASS 



The reason (the fact will bear repetition) why so 

 much land has been allowed to go down to grass, 



