Abstract
THE form of the Rothamsted Report*for 1936 differs from those of former years in that a number of investigations which have extended over a period of years have been selected for detailed discussion, thus summarizing the results up to date. This type of annual report has an undoubted advantage in presenting the results of agricultural research, where a number of variable factors, such as seasonal effect, enter, tending to give uneven progress towards final conclusions ; the results of one year may not give a representative picture of the work in hand. Though the work at Rothamsted is mostly of a fundamental type, the practical needs of the farming industry are kept continually in mind, the research programme being under constant scrutiny so as to follow up immediately those results likely to have a practical bearing. With long-period research, such as that embracing some of the field experiments which have been in progress for half a century, the need for such a policy is apparent, and it probably explains much of Rothamsted's secret of interesting both the research worker and the farmer.
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Rothamsted Experimental Station. Nature 141, 212–213 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141212a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141212a0