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e-RAdoc: Digited Documents from the Rothamsted Long-term Experiments
Woburn Experimental Farm Report for 1931
Book
:
Report for 1931
Collection:
Rothamsted Reports
Year of Publication
: 1932
Book DOI
:
https://doi.org/10.23637/ERADOC-1-65
Reference:
Dr J. A. Voelcker
(1932)
Woburn Experimental Farm Report for 1931 in :
Report for 1931
- pp 93 - 100
Copyright
: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Creator
: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher
: Rothamsted Research
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Report for 1931
Title
Pages
Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1931
1
Rothamsted Laboratories , Erected 1914-1916
2
Contents
4
Rothamsted Experimental Station; Woburn Experimental Farm; and Imperial Bureau of Soil Staff List
6
Publications of Rothamsted Experimental Station
13
Introduction - General Account of Rothamsted
17
Rothamsted Report for the Year 1931
20
Field Experiments
20
Fertilisers on Grassland
20
Home Grown Food for Animals
27
Potatoes
28
Barley
30
Sugar Beet
31
Experiments at Outside Centres
33
Soil Fertility and Mechanisation
35
Elements Needed by Plants in Small Quantities
38
Methods for Agricultural Soil Survey
39
Bacterial Numbers and Soil Fertility
40
General Microbiology
40
Fungal Numbers
41
Virus Diseases
42
Bacterial Diseases
43
Fungus Diseases
44
Insect Pests
45
Insecticides
46
Bees
47
Survey of Fungus Diseases at Rothamsted and Woburn
49
Survey of Insect Pests at Rothamsted and Woburn
52
Field Plot Technique
57
Accuracy of Field Experiments
59
Rothamsted Farm Report
61
Meteorological Observations
66
Summaries of Papers Published in 1931 - I. Scientific Papers
68
Crops, Plant Growth, Plant Products and Action of Manures
68
Statistical Methods and Results
74
The Soil
77
Soil Organisms
80
The Plant in Disease : Control of Disease
84
Summaries of Papers Published in 1931 II. Technical and Other Papers
89
General
89
Crops, Soils and Fertilisers
90
Biological
91
Woburn Experimental Farm :
93
Woburn Experimental Farm Report for 1931
93
Woburn Farm: Report
100
Yields of Experimental Plots
107
Rothamsted Experimental Plots, 1931
108
The Use of the Summary Tables
108
The Classical Experiments
109
Errata for Rothamsted Report for 1930
127
Continuous Rotation Experiments
129
Other Experiments at Rothamsted
141
Other Experiments at Woburn
160
Experiments at Outside Centres
166
Lawes Agricultural Trust; Trustees and Committee; the Incorporated Society for Extending the Rothamsted Experiments
199
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