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Excerpt from Annual Report for 1914: With the Supplement to the "Guide to the Experimental Plots," Containing the Yields Per Acre, Etc
These developments necessitated a considerable extension of the laboratory and of the farm. The first steps consisted in taking over 230 acres of land in 1911 on a 77 years' lease, and this, together with the Trust land, gave a self-contained farm capable of being worked with great advantage to the experiments. Suitable farm buildings and cottages were erected in 1913. A new wing was also added to the laboratory, and this was Opened on June 27, 1913, by the Rt. Hon. Walter Runciman, m.p., President of the Board of Agriculture.
In 1914 the old laboratory, which had for some time revealed certain structural defects, was taken down and a new laboratory was begun, to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Sir J. B. Lawes in 1814 and of Sir J. H. Gilbert in 1817. Altogether these improvements cost over of which was given in grants from the Development Fund and over collected by public subscription; of this was obtained as the Lawes and Gilbert Centenary Fund in 1914.
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