EMPIRE RESEARCH IN AGRICULTURE
* LORD BLEDISLOE URGES VALUE OF EXPENDITURE (Received June 4, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 3. Lord Bledisloe, addressing members of the agricultural and forest services of the Empire at the Rothamsted Experimental Station, said that £IO,OOO spent on soil research might lead to benefits worth £500,000. He would suggest that £IO,OOO should be given by each part of the Empire as an endowment to Rothamsted when it celebrates, its centenary in 1943. The Rothamsted Station, at Harpenden, Hertfordshire, is one of the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux, under the council set up in 1929 to form “clearing houses” of research information on agriculture. The bureaux are financed from a common fund provided by the Empire Gov-
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22111, 5 June 1937, Page 25
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