SEEDS AND PLANTS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 257, 14 July 1926, Page 3

SEEDS AND PLANTS

PEDIGREE, NOT SAMPLES. A BASIS OF JUDGMENT. Professor R. G. Stapleton, Director of the Welsh Plant Station, and an authority in England on seeds and pastures, when speaking at tJie Rotary Club luncheon yesterday, made it plain that, in his opinion, the day of experts, merely as experts, was numbered, and the day of the research scientist had arrived Great strides had been made in England, be said, within the last 10 or 15 years, in scientific agricultural research work.. He was opposed to the selection of seeds merely on samples, the view most commonly adopted ’by experts. All that expert knowledge meant, ho said, was expert opinion. “The tendency to-day. he added, “is more and more that education arises out of research, so that in England we are placing research work before mere education. I don t think Great Britain docs enough to comb the world for new grasses in New grasses often add from 10 to 15 per cent, more value to pasture. Professor Stapleton stated that he would like to see scholarships the Rhodes Scholarship, introduced, X r n k h f : r empbasised that” the on n wlPiffit Should”be judged.