Excerpt from A Plan for Cooperative Research on the Salt Requirements of Representative Agricultural Plants: Prepared for a Special Committee of the Division of Biology and Agriculture of the National Research Council The shortage of potassium in this country during war time emphasized the need that our knowledge of the best ways of using fertilizer salts in general should be increased and put on a definite basis as rapidly as possible. This, together with the high price of nitrogen-bearing fertilizer material, gave to this project some of the characteristics of a war-emergency problem, but the problem is exceedingly important and fundamental to agricultural development in general. A concentrated effort toward the building up of a reliable body of American scientific results in this field may be regarded as highly desirable from the standpoint of national welfare. Also, the fact of cooperation itself should benefit American science very greatly, and it may be hoped that this general method of advancing knowledge may eventually become much more common among democratic peoples than has been the case in the past. Aside from war-emergency matters, this is one of the aims set forth by the President of the United States in his executive order establishing the National Research Council on a permanent basis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.