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GRASS-LAND MANAGEMENT
Two very different methods of approach to the problems of grass-land management in a country like Great Britain are possible. We can either study the question from the point of view of the present organization of agricultural research in this country or we can bring the world-wide experience of the grass and clover families to bear as if no institutions like the Welsh Plant Breeding Station, the Rowett Institute at Aberdeen, or the Rothamsted Experiment Station--all of which deal independently with some fragment of the grass-land problem--had ever been contemplated. As the advantages of the fresh eye are many and obvious and as the writer has had a long and extensive first-hand experience of the cultivation of a number of crops belonging to the grass and clover families, the principles underlying grass-land management in Great Britain will be considered from a new angle, namely, the conditions which practical experience in the tropics has shown to be necessary for grasses and legumes to express themselves and to tell their own story.