THE NEW AGRICULTURE.
It is a liberal education—or, should I say ?—a National Government education to spend a day or half a day at Rothamsted, that world-famous agricultural station which is as new as it is old. I wrote something the other day of its new research into electric farming, postponed for a while owing to the immense charges for burying a cable. Since then I have spent some hours in its laboratories and library as well as on the farm. No place better illustrates the acceler- ated rate of scientific discovery and invention. Every single week Mr. Heard of the B.B.C. fords something, often several, quite new things to report in experimental and practical science. He could almost fill his quarter of an hour with discourse on the progress of science in the realm of husbandry.
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