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Report for 1959

TitlePages
Report of Rothamsted Experimental Station for 19591
Rothamsted Laboratories, Erected 1914-19162
Contents3
Lawes Agricultural Trust and the Incorporated Society of Extending the Rothamsted Experiments 5
Rothamsted Experimental Station; Soil Survey of England and Wales; Woburn Experimental Station , Dunholme Field Station and Agricultural Research Council Unit of Plant Morphogenesis and Nutrition and the Commonwealth Bureau of Soils Staff List6
Introduction21
General Report 23
Departmental Reports31
Physics Department31
Chemistry Department38
Pedology Department61
Soil Microbiology Department68
Botany Department72
Biochemistry Department87
Plant Pathology Department94
Nematology Department111
Insecticides and Fungicides Department117
Entomology Department132
Bee Department144
Statistics Department151
Field Experiments Section158
Combine-drilling Nitrogen for Spring Cereals160
Farmyard Manure and Its Interactions With Fertilisers164
The Farms : Rothamsted169
The Farms : Woburn174
The Use of "simazine" to Control Weeds in Field Beans and Potatoes : Preliminary Report177
The Effect of Two Plant-growth Hormones on the Pod Set and Yield of Field Beans180
Woburn Experimental Station 183
Dunholme Field Station188
Soil Survey of England and Wales 197
Special Reviews204
Infectious Diseases of the Honeybee204
The Wheat Bulb Fly Leptihylemyia Coarctata Fall. : a Review of Current Knowledge of Its Biology216
The Exhaustion Land Site : an Account of Experiments Made Before and During the Period of Soil Exhaustion230
Abstracts of Papers 240
Publications of Rothamsted Experimental Station283
Books by Present and Past Members of Rothamsted Staff285
Map of Rothamsted Experimental Farm 1958289

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