CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 112, 14 May 1914, Page 6

CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.

, The connection of chemistry to agriculture may appear to many farmers a, remote one. That the work done with a lot of mysterious apparatus Jn some town laboratory is going to influence crop production seems, perhaps, too impossible to the farmer, and yet the, new agriculture—the scientific agriculture, as w« call it— has its foundation in chemistry. It was not untril the analyst in the laboratory had found out the materials that form our soils and the subs/tamoes which compose our crops that the information was forthcoming that explained unproductivity, and assisted in again restoring fertility. The chemist, then, is- a man whose services, more, _ perhaps, than any other man, are indispensable to successful farming, has given his best energies to the work of assisting the farmer. The best answer to the contention so'_ frequently put forward of science being unable to do anything for agriculture is found in the long list of the investigations > and. discoveries which began with Liebisi,' and has- been uninterruptedly continued to tlhe present day.