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The Soil

Book: Report 1925-26 with the Supplement to the Guide to the Experimental Plots
Collection: Rothamsted Reports
Year of Publication : 1926
Book DOI: https://doi.org/10.23637/ERADOC-1-84
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Rothamsted Research (1926) The Soil in : Report 1925-26 with the Supplement to the Guide to the Experimental Plots - pp 62 - 72
Copyright: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Creator: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: Rothamsted Research
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Report 1925-26 with the Supplement to the Guide to the Experimental Plots

Title	Pages
Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1925-1926 With the Supplement to the Guide to the Experimental Plots	1
Rothamsted Laboratories, Erected 1914-16	2
Contents	4
Rothamsted Experimental Station and Woburn Experimental Farm Staff List	6
Publications of Rothamsted Experimental Station	11
Introduction - General Account of Rothamsted	14
Rothamsted Report for the Years 1925, 1926	16
Fertiliser Investigations	17
Results on Malting Barley	20
Results on Potatoes	22
Manuring of Grassland	24
Law of Diminishing Returns	25
Methods of Field Experimentation	26
Influence of Weather on Yields	29
The Use of Lime and Limestone	30
Cultivation Studies	31
General Soil Physics	35
Work in the Empire	36
Soil Microbiology	37
Applications of Soil Microbiology	40
Inoculation of Lucerne and Other Leguminous Crops	40
Production of Manure from Waste Cellulose Materials	42
Partial Sterilisation	42
Microbiology and Treatment of Sewage	43
Losses of Crops by Diseases and Pests	44
Insecticides	47
Plant Resistance and Immunity to Fungus Disease	49
Bee Investigations	50
Virus Diseases of Plants	50
Meteorological Observations	52
Summaries of Papers Published, 1924, 1925 - I. Scientific Papers	54
Crops, Plant Growth and Fertiliser Investigations	54
Statistical Methods and Results	59
The Soil	62
The Soil Population and Its Behaviour	72
The Plant in Disease; Control of Disease	78
Summaries of Papers Published, 1924, 1925 - II. Technical Papers	85
Rothamsted Experimental Plots	90
Rothamsted Farm & Crop Results, Rothamsted, 1925, 1926	90
Woburn Report for 1925, 1926	94
Yields of Experimental Plots 1925, 1926	122
The Use of the Standard Error in Field Experiments	122
The Classical Experiments	123
Replicated Experiments	138
Lawes Agricultural Trust, Trustees and Committee; Society for Extending the Rothamsted Experiments	156

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