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Improvements at the Farm

Book: Rothamsted Report for 1932
Collection: Rothamsted Reports
Year of Publication : 1933
Book DOI: https://doi.org/10.23637/ERADOC-1-64
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Rothamsted Research (1933) Improvements at the Farm in : Rothamsted Report for 1932 - pp 19 - 21
Copyright: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Creator: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: Rothamsted Research
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Rothamsted Report for 1932

Title	Pages
Rothamsted Report for 1932	-1
Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1932	1
Rothamsted Laboratories , Erected 1914-1916	2
Contents	4
Rothamsted Experimental Station; Woburn Experimental Farm; Imperial Bureau of Soil Staff List	6
Publications of Rothamsted Experimental Station	12
Introduction - General Account of Rothamsted	16
Rothamsted Report for the Year 1932	19
Improvements at the Farm	19
Field Experiments	21
Sugar Beet	22
Potatoes	25
Fodder Crops	26
Inoculation of Legumes	28
Six Course Rotational Experiment	30
Cereals Under Mechanical Conditions	31
Valuation of Farmyard Manure	32
Effect of Leys or Fallow Before Wheat	33
Barley	35
Composition of the Barley Crop	40
Physical Properties of the Soil	42
Chemical Properties of the Soil	43
Biological Decomposition of Organic Matter	44
Plant Pathology	45
Purification of Effluents	45
Virus Diseases	46
Insect Pests	47
Insecticides	49
Bees	49
Survey of Insect Pests at Rothamsted and Woburn	50
Survey of Fungus Diseases at Rothamsted and Woburn	52
Rothamsted Farm Report	55
Meteorological Observations	64
Summaries of Papers Published in 1932 - I. Scientific Papers	67
Crops, Plant Growth, Plant Products and Action of Manures	67
Statistical Methods and Results	73
The Soil	78
Microbiology	83
The Plant in Disease : Control of Disease	87
Summaries of Papers Published in 1932 II. Technical and Other Papers	91
Crops, Soils and Fertilisers	91
General	91
Biological	92
Woburn Experimental Farm	94
Woburn Experimental Farm Report 1932	94
Report by Mr H. G. Miller	100
Dates of Operations , and Yields	103
Rothamsted Experimental Plots, 1932	107
Yeilds of Experimental Plots	108
Date of Operations, and Yields	108
The Classical Experiments	115
Continuous Rotation Experiments	127
Other Experiments at Rothamsted	136
Other Experiments at Woburn	163
Experiments at Outside Centres	169
Lawes Agricultural Trust; Trustees and Committee; the Incorporated Society for Extending the Rothamsted Experiments	227

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