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AT the annual meeting of the Board of Green-keeping Research in Leeds on February 11, 1949, the director of the St. Ives Research Station, Mr. R. B. Dawson, presented his report on the Station's activities during 1948. In spite of a shortage of staff, the work has increased, and research has continued on many of the old experiments put down early in the station's history. New work has been done on soil stabilization with bitumen, seeds mixtures, growth substances for the control of weeds, and worm control. The advisory work carried out during the year has been very heavy. Visits to subscribing clubs, the Station's postal advisory service and the number of samples from clubs which were handled by the laboratory, all showed substantial increases in the 1948 figures as compared with 1947. In addition to the pH, lime requirement and the phosphate status, the reports of the laboratory analyses of club samples now include the potash status. Golf clubs in Great Britain have continued their support, and there has been a marked increase in the support from municipalities and clubs. Educational work has been kept up in that many lectures have been given to outside bodies, and six courses of instruction for groundsmen have been arranged at the Station.
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Board of Greenkeeping Research : St. Ives Station, Bingley. Nature 163, 396 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163396c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163396c0