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ANNUAL FIELD DAY ON June 28, the annual field day and inspection of the laboratories was held at Rothamsted, Lord Radnor, chairman of the Lawes Agricultural Trust Committee, presiding. There was a large attendance representing agriculture and the allied industries. Sir E. Kaye le Fleming, chairman of the Council of the British Medical Association, was the chief guest. His presence was a welcome sign that medical men are deeply concerned with matters of human nutrition, and recognize that n prosperous agriculture based on a fertile soil is essential for the supply of home-grown ‘protective foods’ on which the well-being of our town population depends. This common ground between medicine and agriculture had been thoroughly explored two months previously in a national conference organized by the British Medical Association in which nutritional experts and agricultural scientists took part (see NATURE, of May 6, p. 745); the proceedings at Rothamsted showed that both sides desire this co-operation to continue and develop. The main position, as Sir Kaye pointed out, is clear; doctors are agreed that a high proportion of the population do not enjoy a diet sufficient for the highest physical wellbeing, and nothing but good could come from a determined attack on this problem. From the medical side, the framer of agricultural policy needs definite information as to the kinds and qualities of food stuffs required to build up nn adequate diet, and this information is apparently now available. It is for the agriculturist to show how commodities of the necessary standard may be produced with economy of effort and the maintenance of the land.
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Rothamsted Experimental Station. Nature 144, 82 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144082a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144082a0