experiment station
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of experiment station
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Kariyat joined the experiment station, the research arm of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, in 2022.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2024
He worked the test fields with Peter J. Nitzsche, the Rutgers Cooperative Extension agent for Morris County, and Jack Rabin, the associate director of the experiment station.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2016
Government experiment station skinned ten inches of soil off half an acre of virgin Ohio grassland, leaving nothing but the yellow subsoil.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1915 he got a job as research assistant at the experiment station and began working with soil microorganisms, the starting point of the antibiotics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Farming was stated as the ambition of 167, teaching 21, experiment station work 23, landscape gardening 6, and other rural professions 15.
From The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity by George Walter Fiske
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