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whole area was under a cleaning crop; well manured while under 
cultivation ; seeded down to pasture 1909 ; mown for hay 1910» 
and subsequently grazed without further manuring. 
Arga 4. Adjoining Areas x and 2. 
Altitude: 675 feet. 
Soil: Type ii. (p. 3). 
History : In grass probably for about 10 years prior to 1898 ; 
ploughed in the spring of 1898 and put through a course of 
cultivation similar to that of Area 1; laid down to grass in 1903; 
mown for hay in 1904; subsequently grazed without further 
manuring. 
The details of the seeds-mixture used are not known, but it 
is known that Lolium perenne, Dactylis glomerata, ‘Broad Red 
Clover,” and probably Plantago lanceolata were included. 
Ara 5. Adjoining Area 1 diagonally. 
Altitude: 600 feet. 
Soil: Type ii. (p. 3); slightly deeper and lighter than Area 1. 
History: Grazed continuously with very little manuring for at 
least 50 years prior to 1903; oats 1903; bastard fallow; dredge- 
corm 19043 oats 1905; bastard fallow; dredge-corn 1906, when 
it was seeded down ; well manured while under cultivation, and 
partly under a cleaning crop in 1904 and 1905; mown for hay 
1907; dressed with lime compost winter 1907-8 ; mown for hay 
1908 ; subsequently grazed without manure. 
Holcus lanatus was very prominent in the 1g08 hay crop. 
AREA 6, 
Altitude: 850 feet. 
Soil: Type i. (p. 3) 
History ; It is known to have been under cultivation about 
1855, and that during that period of cultivation it was partly under 
a cleaning crop. It was also manured at that time with peat 
