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Excerpt from The Improvement of Poor Permanent Pasture: Lecture Delivered at Ayr on 30th October, 1906
He said that the question of the improvement of poor permanent pasture had engaged a good deal of public atten tion during the past few years. A revived interest had been taken in the subject from the date of the publication by Dr. Somerville of the results of experiments designed and carried out by him at Cockle Park. That original experiment attracted a great deal of public attention, because it introduced an entirely new method of treating pasture, and also produced on that station results of a striking and remarkable character. The field experimented on was divided into plots of three acres. Each of these plots received different treatment with manures, and the result was decided by stocking each of the plots by separate lots of sheep which were grazed on the plots, regularly weighed every month, and a record kept of their weights and progress, and at the end of the year the improvement in the pasture was not determined by the casual method of comparing the appearance of one plot with that of another, but by the amount of mutton made by the sheep. They got an increase on some of the plots sufficient to pay the cost of the manures, and on others they had a very large profit. The results of the manuring at Cockle Park could be hardly credited except by those who had seen the plots, and one of the chief features was the extra6.
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