At Cockle Park 1^1 



cent, of wiry bent. But this attenuated sample of what 

 may be done by a dietary of this description has its use 

 in magnifying immensely, by contrast, the sheep in the 

 remaining eight compartments which have been stimu- 

 lated by the use of artificial manures, at costs varying 

 from 22s to as high as 63-S an acre. The portly figures of 

 these sheep, as shown in the diagram, with the various 

 manures inscribed on their sides, are really most en- 

 couraging at first sight, and shows the results that may 

 be attained by practically starving one sheep by keeping 

 it on the toughest and poorest fare, and feeding others 

 highly through the agency of costly manures applied 

 to the soil. But how would it have been had the 

 experiment been made on the Inner Kaimrig, which has 

 carried a large sheep stock fed on a field full of dark 

 green clover and kidney vetch, and which still, on 

 November 12, presents a rich dark green appearance? 

 I have no hesitation in saying that the attenuated sheep 

 in Plot No. 1 of the Cockle Park experiments would have 

 assumed a form as portly as his brethren on the manured 

 plots, and yet on the Inner Kaimrig — originally the 

 poorest field, on a poor to medium land farm — no 

 manure, excepting some artificials with the turnips, has 

 ever been used since the field was enclosed from the hill 

 about 70 years ago, nor has any cake been fed on the 

 land excepting some very trivial amount given to some 

 rams kept in the field, and a few of the ewes drafted for 

 sale — in fact, the amount of cake used on the whole 

 farm is so small that the agriculturist quoted in my 

 preface considered it to be practically none. But, for 

 the benefit of the uninformed, I must add that it would 

 convey an erroneous impression if I left him under the 

 idea that my field had not been manured, and highly 

 maniired, and in a, mxich more lasting form than the 

 artificially-manured land at Cockle Park, on which the 

 sheep experiments were made. For the Inner Kaim- 

 rig, as testified by the dark green herbage, has been 

 heavily manured with nitrogen, partly taken from the 



