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The Committee discussed the figures in order to decide whether

more publicity should be given, and decided against further publication for the time being. Doubtless the success is exceptional, not normal ; but publicity can only do good, for the conditions are in no way exceptional. It is important to extract and emphasize the causes of such an adventure by a man, an ex-soldier of clerical upbringing, who began without farming knowledge. They seem to me to be three- fold. The farmer farms well because all his training, though brief, was scientific. He has spent almost as much thought on marketing as on producing. He has taken advantage of any local market available. Though over 16 per cent. of the land is grass, the whole has produced an average of £20 per acre.