Report for 1929
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1930
Subjects: subject: crop yield
subject: meteorological observations
subject: fertilizer application
subject: wheat
subject: soil
subject: crop rotation
subject: agricultural research
subject: agronomy
subject: barley
subject: fallowing
subject: farmyard manure
subject: nitrogen fertilizers
subject: rothamsted research
subject: rothamsted classical experiments
subject: broadbalk long-term experiment
subject: park grass long-term experiment
subject: rothamsted long-term experiments
subject: hoosfield alternate wheat and fallow long-term experiment
subject: exhaustion land long-term experiment
subject: broadbalk wilderness experiment
subject: geescroft wilderness experiments
subject: agdell long-term experiment
subject: barnfield clover long-term experiment
subject: woburn experimental farm
subject: basic slag
subject: lucerne
subject: potatoes
subject: apiculture
subject: sugarbeet
subject: mangolds
subject: oats
subject: soil cultivation
subject: entomology
subject: disease control

description: Scanned PDF of Report for 1929
description: Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1929.....................................................1<br>Rothamsted Laboratories , Erected 1914-1916.........................................................2<br>Contents............................................................................................4<br>Rothamsted Experimental Station and Woburn Experimental Farm Staff List.............................6<br>Publications of Rothamsted Experimental Station ....................................................13<br>Introduction - General Account of Rothamsted .......................................................17<br>Rothamsted Report For The Year 1929 ................................................................20<br>CHANGES IN THE SYSTEM OF FARM MANAGEMENT............................................................22<br>Laying Down Land to Grass ..........................................................................23<br>Manuring Grass Land ................................................................................23<br>Effectiveness of Basic Slag ........................................................................25<br>CROP EXPERIMENTS....................................................................................26<br>Lucerne ............................................................................................26<br>Potatoes ...........................................................................................27<br>Sugar Beet .........................................................................................30<br>Mangolds ...........................................................................................33<br>Barley .............................................................................................33<br>Winter Wheat .......................................................................................36<br>Winter Oats ........................................................................................37<br>Effect of Weather on Wheat and Barley ..............................................................38<br>LOSSES FROM ARABLE LAND.............................................................................38<br>DECOMPOSITION OF PLANT RESIDUES.....................................................................39<br>Artificial Farmyard Manure .........................................................................39<br>Effluent from Sugar Factories ......................................................................41<br>SOIL CULTIVATION....................................................................................42<br>PLANT PATHOLOGY.....................................................................................43<br>Fungi and Bacteria .................................................................................43<br>Virus and Diseases .................................................................................44<br>Entomology .........................................................................................44<br>Bee Research........................................................................................45<br>ACCURACY OF FIELD EXPERIMENTS.......................................................................45<br>DURATION OF THE EFFECT OF FALLOWING.................................................................48<br>WINTER AND HOME-GROWN FOOD FOR STOCK................................................................49<br>Summaries of Papers Published 1929 - I. Scientific Papers...........................................51<br>CROPS, PLANT GROWTH AND FERTILISER INVESTIGATIONS...................................................51<br>STATISTICAL METHODS AND RESULTS.....................................................................56<br>THE SOIL............................................................................................58<br>THE SOIL POPULATION AND ITS BEHAVIOUR...............................................................59<br>THE PLANT IN DISEASE ; CONTROL OF DISEASE ..........................................................59<br>Summaries of Papers Published 1929 - II. Technical Papers ..........................................62<br>Meteorological Observations.........................................................................63<br>The Farm and Crop Results, Rothamsted, 1929.........................................................65<br>Woburn Experimental Farm :..........................................................................68<br>Rothamsted Experimental Plots, 1929 ................................................................77<br>The Use of the Summary Tables ......................................................................78<br>The Classical Experiments ..........................................................................79<br>Replicated Experiments .............................................................................89<br>Experiments at Rothamsted ..........................................................................89<br>Experiments at Woburn ..............................................................................106<br>Experiments at Outside Centres .....................................................................115<br>Errata for Rothamsted Report for 1927-28 ...........................................................124<br>Lawes Agricultural Trust, Trustees And Committee; The Incorporated Society for Extending the Rothamsted Experiments ..125<br>