The Application of Science to Crop Production: an Experiment carried out at the Institute of Plant Industry, Indore

Abstract

IN many countries, up to the War period, the career of agricultural research was one of struggle and piecemeal growth. Exceptions were to be found in the steady evolution of research institutes in some European countries; the United States had inaugurated a wide organisation; and in India an interesting feature was the establishment of certain ‘central’ research stations. Tropical agricultural research was, in general, under neglect. The decade now ending will always stand out as a period of informed interest and of determination to develop agriculture by application of the sciences. It is of the British Empire that this is particularly true, and the Imperial Agricultural Research Conference of 1927 may prove to merit a permanent place in the history of agricultural development.

The Application of Science to Crop Production: an Experiment carried out at the Institute of Plant Industry, Indore.

By Albert Howard Gabrielle L. C. Howard. Pp. v + 81 + 12 plates. (London: Oxford University Press.) 9s. net.