178 Abolition of Weeds, etc. 



Effects of the System in Abolishing WEEDS.-rBy 

 taking turnips after grass instead of oats, the cereal crop ■with 

 which farmers begin their cropping rotation, you spring any weed 

 seeds there are in the field, whereas in the case of taking oats 

 after grass the tendency is to plough down, and so conserve both 

 weeds and their seeds. As we take a second turnip crop before 

 laying down, this, of course, stiE further cleans the land, so that 

 weeds are abolished by the time we lay down to grass. We then 

 so fuUy fill the field with grass plants, and fill up every vacancy 

 by re -seeding if necessary, that there are practically no weeds in 

 the pasture, a fact to which my attention has been called by more 

 than one visitor. 



COMPABISON OF THE EeSULTS OF THE NeW StSTBM AT 

 C/LIFTON-ON-BoWMONT with THOSE OF AN ADJACENT FaEM. — 



I have found that the Inner Kaimrig field of 25 acres has kept 

 as much sheep stock as the 87 acres of the fields of an adjacent 

 farm, where the soil and situation throughout is certainly better 

 than that of my field, which is by far the poorest on the farm, or 

 ■certainly was so tiQ well supplied with humus from the ploughed- 

 down turf. The adjacent farm is kept on the old five-com'se 

 system, and the mixtures used are clover and ryegrass. But 

 this is far from being all. When my neighbour puts down 

 turnips he will have to manure them with dung or artificials, and 

 will probably do so with both ; while the fine tiimip crop grown 

 in the adjacent field (East Countridge) to the limer Kaimrig, 

 without any manure, proves that my land requires neither. 



Gbass Inoculation, oe Laying Down Land to Peemanent 

 Pastuee by Teansplanted Tube. — I began to experiment as 

 regards this many years ago, but did not continue to do so, as I 

 came to the conclusion that all our old pastures were too full of 

 weeds and inferior grasses to justify inoculation from them, and 

 now that a perfectly clean pasture, undistinguishable from old 

 g3:ass, can be created under my system of farming in four or five 

 years, by using the. proper seeds, there seems to be no justifica- 

 tion for resorting to the expensive and troublesome method of 

 forming a pasture by inoculation. 



