eRA e-RAdoc: Digited Documents from the Rothamsted Long-term Experiments

Accuracy of Field Experiments

Print and Export

Report for 1931

TitlePages
Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 19311
Rothamsted Laboratories , Erected 1914-19162
Contents4
Rothamsted Experimental Station; Woburn Experimental Farm; and Imperial Bureau of Soil Staff List6
Publications of Rothamsted Experimental Station13
Introduction - General Account of Rothamsted17
Rothamsted Report for the Year 193120
Field Experiments20
Fertilisers on Grassland20
Home Grown Food for Animals27
Potatoes 28
Barley30
Sugar Beet 31
Experiments at Outside Centres33
Soil Fertility and Mechanisation35
Elements Needed by Plants in Small Quantities38
Methods for Agricultural Soil Survey39
Bacterial Numbers and Soil Fertility40
General Microbiology40
Fungal Numbers41
Virus Diseases42
Bacterial Diseases43
Fungus Diseases 44
Insect Pests45
Insecticides46
Bees47
Survey of Fungus Diseases at Rothamsted and Woburn49
Survey of Insect Pests at Rothamsted and Woburn52
Field Plot Technique57
Accuracy of Field Experiments59
Rothamsted Farm Report61
Meteorological Observations66
Summaries of Papers Published in 1931 - I. Scientific Papers 68
Crops, Plant Growth, Plant Products and Action of Manures68
Statistical Methods and Results74
The Soil77
Soil Organisms80
The Plant in Disease : Control of Disease84
Summaries of Papers Published in 1931 II. Technical and Other Papers 89
General89
Crops, Soils and Fertilisers90
Biological91
Woburn Experimental Farm :93
Woburn Experimental Farm Report for 193193
Woburn Farm: Report100
Yields of Experimental Plots107
Rothamsted Experimental Plots, 1931108
The Use of the Summary Tables108
The Classical Experiments109
Errata for Rothamsted Report for 1930127
Continuous Rotation Experiments129
Other Experiments at Rothamsted141
Other Experiments at Woburn160
Experiments at Outside Centres166
Lawes Agricultural Trust; Trustees and Committee; the Incorporated Society for Extending the Rothamsted Experiments199

Rothamsted eRAdoc is developed at Rothamsted Research