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The, Kaimrig Experiments. 



proportion of fair hill soil, and to have attempted to 

 treat them on the old system would certainly have been 

 to occupy the jaws of a wolf or a crocodile. I then 

 determined on laying them down to permanent pasture, 

 and they were accordingly both laid down in 1890 with 

 a thin seeding of oats. The poorer of the two, the 

 Inner Kaimrig, a iield of 25 acres, was sown as 

 follows : — 



Total, 35| lbs. per acre. 



The adjacent field, the Outer Kaimrig, 22 acres, I 

 resolved to experiment on, and the mixture used was as 

 follows : — 



Total, 39 lbs. per acre. 



Both fields were grazed with sheep. The Inner 

 Kaimrig field showed great signs of inferiority to the 

 Outer Kaimrig field, sown with the mixture which 

 included the seeds of the deep-rooting plants, and so 

 much so that, after a three years' trial in grass, I 

 resolved to plough it up, and lay it down again with a 

 much larger proportion of deep-rooting plants, of which. 



