138 Jtl.vpi'rii'jicex up to the end of October, 1904. 



APPENDIX III. 



Outer Kaimrig Experiment. — The experiment with the Outer 

 Kaimrig field began in 1890, and the particulars are given on 

 page 29. The mixture used in 1899 was- 



Cost of seeds, £1 19s Id, or under 8s a year. 

 The parsnip was put down as an experiment, but I have since formed 

 the opinion that chicory is the more suitable plant, and is superior to 

 the parsnip. The pasture, the seeds for which were sown May 8, 

 1899, with oats, which proved a good crop, has given much satis- 

 faction, and kept the following stock in 1900 :— From April 27 to 

 June 13, 60 half-bred ewes and twin lambs ; from .Tune 13 to July 27, 

 80 ewes and twin Iambs ; from July 30 to August 21, 180 lambs ; 

 from August 21 to September 1, 100 ewes ; from October 5 to 

 November 10, 60 ewes. The ewes and twin lambs were increased 

 from 60 to 80, as 60 ewes and their double lambs proved quite insuflS- 

 cient to keep the grass down. The field latterly could have kept 

 much more stock, but has been lightly grazed towards the end of the 

 season, as it is first year's grass. I regard this field as an interesting 

 proof of what may be done with the vast areas of run-out and poor 

 lands in these islands. The field is the furthest out one on the farm ; 

 it is extremely exposed, and has no plantation or hedge to protect it ; 

 its elevation is from about 700 feet at the foot of the field to 800 at the 

 top. It had been taken out of the hill about seventy years ago, and 

 worked on the five-course shift, and has never been manured since, 

 excepting with some artificials with the turnips, and the manure (a 

 most important exception, I admit, if we consider all its eflfects) of a 

 good turf grown with deep-rooting grasses and plants. Those who 

 have not seen the field cannot believe in the amount of stock it has 

 carried, but the explanation simply is that, if you grow a full supply 

 of the most deep-rooting plants, you tap depths quite out of the reach 

 of the shallow-rooting ryegrass, and certainly add about 30 per cent, 

 to the available rootage area of the field ; the large supply of plants 

 of rapidly-productive powers does the rest. 



