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IN concluding a course of Cantor lectures at the Society of Arts on Monday, on the subject of “Artificial Fertilisers,” Mr. A. D. Hall, director of the Rothamsted Experiment Station, pointed out that only by continued investigation and experiment can a knowledge lie obtained of the conditions necessary to make the maximum profit out of the land, crops, and stock. The teacher can only hand on what is already known; and much yet remains unknown about the growth of our commonest crops and the action of standard fertilisers. Adequate provision for scientific investigation of agricultural matters is of national importance, as the following remarks made by Mr. Hall show; but though a few counties and other local bodies are carrying out demonstrations, Rothamated, with its comparatively small endowment, remains practically our only experiment station where problems in agricultural science are studied with the object of making new knowledge, and State aid for research amounts only to a few hundred pounds a year for the whole country.
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Agricultural Research . Nature 75, 185–186 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/075185b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/075185b0