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that good, average, hard-working cultivators were 

 established on suitable holdings and were in a posi- 

 tion to make their agricultural operations reason- 

 ably intensive, each cause of the hypothetical in- 

 crease being credited with its own share in the result. 



The above figures are based on the experience 

 obtained at the experimental farms situated at the 

 places mentioned, and indicate the results that can 

 be obtained by good tillage, timely operations of 

 sowing and interculture, adequate manure, sound 

 seed and protection from surface washing. The exact 

 figure is, of course, a matter of personal opinion, 

 and in suggesting such figures no claim is made for 

 scientific accuracy, but as evidence that the figures 

 are not excessive the case of the Government experi- 

 mental farms may be taken, on which the outturns 

 have been doubled in the course of a few years by 

 the ordinary methods of good farming indicated above. 

 Another instance that may be cited is the following. 



