ROTHAMSTED

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 12, 13 July 1935, Page 11

ROTHAMSTED

LORD BLEDISLOE'S VISIT

(From "The Post's" .Representative.) , LONDON, ;;June 22. Lord and Lady Bledlsloe'were;among the distinguished ■ visijtors :' at the Rothamsted Experimental Station oii the occasion of the. annual inspection, of'the-field plots and laboratories. Lord Clinton, chairman of the Lawes Agricultural Trust' Committee,, presided at luncheon/ 'Referring;.to the recent purchase by-thy-committee, of the farm on which the experiments' and research' have"been' '(farrieH ?r'on for nearly a hundred years, ;he .Intimated that the next move for; which financial help would be' required"would, be in connection with the laboratory. There had been an immense, expansion, in the work in recent years, 'witli.the' result that they were reaching ,s. .stage of congestion, and the". wprk.iri.spme department's, .was' being;.barViea;:pjit.under uncomfortable. conditions.. !'^;'l ■'„'' Lord Eledisloe/a former chairman of the Lawes Trust Comm'ittee^cohgratulated Lord Clinton, Sir John. Russell, and the staff on the great .'progress Rothamsted had made/in r,ecent years, and said that as he travelled about New Zealand he found the. farmers there knew a great deal more'; about the work of Rothamsted^-the oldest and greatest research station In the British Empire—than ./ tlie. .average British farmer. .. , -1. ..■ '. . ''~ ' Sir John Russell, director,,:of the station, said the .work:. \vis suffering from lack of space, and. they bad been getting out1 plans .for .extensions.that they hoped they .would" be.j.able to carry out before long; ; v ".,. .^.