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Report for 1929

TitlePages
Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 19291
Rothamsted Laboratories , Erected 1914-19162
Contents4
Rothamsted Experimental Station and Woburn Experimental Farm Staff List6
Publications of Rothamsted Experimental Station 13
Introduction - General Account of Rothamsted 17
Rothamsted Report for the Year 1929 20
Changes in the System of Farm Management22
Manuring Grass Land 23
Laying Down Land to Grass 23
Effectiveness of Basic Slag 25
Crop Experiments26
Lucerne 26
Potatoes 27
Sugar Beet 30
Barley 33
Mangolds 33
Winter Wheat 36
Winter Oats 37
Losses from Arable Land38
Effect of Weather on Wheat and Barley 38
Decomposition of Plant Residues39
Artificial Farmyard Manure 39
Effluent from Sugar Factories 41
Soil Cultivation42
Plant Pathology43
Fungi and Bacteria 43
Entomology 44
Virus and Diseases 44
Accuracy of Field Experiments45
Bee Research45
Duration of the Effect of Fallowing48
Winter and Home-grown Food for Stock49
Summaries of Papers Published 1929 - I. Scientific Papers51
Crops, Plant Growth and Fertiliser Investigations51
Statistical Methods and Results56
The Soil58
The Plant in Disease ; Control of Disease 59
The Soil Population and Its Behaviour59
Summaries of Papers Published 1929 - II. Technical Papers 62
Meteorological Observations63
The Farm and Crop Results, Rothamsted, 192965
Woburn Experimental Farm :68
Rothamsted Experimental Plots, 1929 77
The Use of the Summary Tables 78
The Classical Experiments 79
Replicated Experiments 89
Experiments at Rothamsted 89
Experiments at Woburn 106
Experiments at Outside Centres 115
Errata for Rothamsted Report for 1927-28 124
Lawes Agricultural Trust, Trustees and Committee; the Incorporated Society for Extending the Rothamsted Experiments 125

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