RESEARCH IN AGRICULTURE.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17680, 3 September 1929, Page 5

RESEARCH IN AGRICULTURE.

WORLD-WIDE APPLICATION. The new agricultural research station of Imperial Chemical Industries at Jealott’s Hill, Warfield,' Berkshire, was recently opened. The station comprises two farms covering an aggregate of 436 acres. One farm contains 360 acres, of which 160 acres is under the plough; the other consists of a grass holding of 76 acres. This farm has been set aside entirely for trials on the production of baby beef, and incorporates -a covered cattleyard of novel design, demonstrating the most modern ideas in practical construction and utility. The research station is equipped with laboratories for analytical work, such as the examination of soil and fertilisers, and for research into such subjects as animal nutrition, biochemistry, botany, bacteriology, and general microbiology. At the opening of the station Lord Melchett, the chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries, said that it was impossible to confine scientific knowledge to countries or empires. It is both world-wide and international in its aspects and application. Agriculture is the foundation of human prosperity. Throughout the whole of the world there was at the present tirne an agricultural crisis, and the man who produces the very fundamental of existence is everywhere the least regarded, and the worst remunerated. Work is going on to-day over the world on a large scale in an effort to discover solutions of such problems as how far it is possible to turn one quality of soil into another and higher quality,