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CHAPTER VII. 
Experimental Stations. 
T-:EE are two agricultural experimental stations in England, English ex- 
th oldest of which is the celelebrated establishment of world- peiimental 
we reputation, belonging to Mr. Lawes, of Rothamsted Park, 
ntr St. Albans, in Hertfordshire. The other, called into 
tence quite recently, is at Woburn, Bedfordshire, on land 
( (1 by his Grace the Duke of Bedford, for the purpose of 
\ing out certain field and feeding experiments, undertaken 
01 behalf of the Rojal Agricultural Society of England, under 
tb direction of Mr. Lawes and myself. 
1 Scotland, the Aberdeenshire Agricultural Association, since Scotch. 
1(5, has employed a chemist, Mr. Thomas Jamieson, for the 
V lose of conducting experiments in agricultural science on 
sites, or " Experimental Stations," of small dimensions, 
che stations at Aboyne, Durris, Hairis, Turriff, and Cluny. 
I ithin the current year the Highland and Agricultural 
5(iety of Scotland has made arrangements to establish several 
E lerimental Stations in several parts of Scotland. 
Rothamsted Experimental Station. 
he foundation of the Rothamsted Experimental Station by '^'^^.^j 
-VJ Lawes may be said to date from 1843. statVn. 
his establishment has, up to the present time, been entirely 
lu jnnected with any external organisation, and has been main- 
ta ed entirely by Mr. Lawes. He has further set apart a sum 
oi 00,000/. and certain areas of land, for the continuance of the 
in !stigations after his death. In 1854-5 a new laboratory was 
bi t by the public subscriptions of agriculturists, and presented 
tolr. Lawes in July 1855, when the old barn-laboratory was 
al idoned, and the new one opened. 
rom June 1843, up to the present time, Dr. J. H. Gilbert 
b; been associated with Mr. Lawes, and has had the direction 
of le laboratory. 
'le number of assistants and other helps has increased from 
to time. During the last twenty-five years the staff has 
isted of one or two and sometimes three chemists, and two 
I iree general assistants. The chief occupation of the general 
asstants is to superintend the field experiments — that is, the 
cc pounding of the manures, the measurement of the plots, the 
ajlication of the manures, and the harvesting of the crops ; also 
tb taking of samples, their preparation for analysis, &c. A 
" nical assistant is also occasionally employed, with from three 
X boys under him, and with him is generally associated one 
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