J. A. SCOTT WATSON
(Professor of Rural Economy,
University of Oxford)
Many who listen to this, the first of Professor Scott Watson 's talks in this series, will remember his ' Rural Britain Today and Tomorrow' which he broadcast in weekly talks in the autumn of 1933. These talks on Rural Britain revealed Professor Scott Watson as a man not only with a wide knowledge of farming, but with a warm sympathy with farmers and farm workers and everything pertaining to the land.
As a young man he studied under
Professor Robert Wallace at Edinburgh University and took a degree in Agriculture. He studied for a year at the Royal Agricultural College, Berlin, and for a year in the States, at Iowa State College of Agriculture.
But he is more than a farmer in theory, he is a farmer in practice, managing, on behalf of St. John's College, Oxford, an arable farm of 480 acres at Long Wittenham, where he specialises in mechanised corn growing, pigs, and sheep.
This evening Professor Scott Watson v. ill deal with Spring fertiliser problems -the manuring of potatoes, sugar beet, roots and kale, and the spring treatment of wheat. He will also touch on some of the general problems of manuring, such as the use of the new concentrated fertilisers and the value of organic manures.