Report for 1937
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1938
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: grasslands
subject: hay
subject: liming
subject: apiculture
subject: sugarbeet
subject: mangolds
subject: potatoes
subject: kales
subject: beans
subject: maize
subject: soybeans
subject: pyrethrins
subject: micronutrients
subject: soil cultivation
subject: entomology
subject: insecticides
subject: fungal diseases
subject: malting barley
subject: disease control

description: Scanned PDF of Report for 1937
description: Rothamsted Experimental Station Report For 1937.....................................................1<br>Rothamsted Laboratories , Erected 1914-1916.........................................................2<br>Contents............................................................................................4<br>Rothamsted Experimental Station; Woburn Experimental Station; Imperial Bureau of Soil Staff List....6<br>Publications Of Rothamsted Experimental Station.....................................................13<br>Introduction - General Account of Rothamsted........................................................18<br>Rothamsted Report For 1937..........................................................................21<br>PROBLEMS BEFORE THE RESEARCH STATION................................................................21<br>GRASSLAND...........................................................................................24<br>Effects Of Cake Feeding.............................................................................24<br>Manuring Of Hay.....................................................................................26<br>ARABLE LAND.........................................................................................27<br>The Liming Programme................................................................................27<br>Residual Effects of Chalk...........................................................................27<br>Organic Manures.....................................................................................29<br>POULTRY MANURE......................................................................................37<br>ARABLE CROPS........................................................................................39<br>Sugar Beet..........................................................................................39<br>Fertilizer Effects of Salt..........................................................................43<br>Mangolds............................................................................................44<br>Potatoes............................................................................................47<br>Kale................................................................................................49<br>Beans...............................................................................................51<br>POSSIBLE NEW CROPS .................................................................................52<br>Maize...............................................................................................52<br>Soya Beans..........................................................................................53<br>PYRETHRUM...........................................................................................53<br>ELEMENTS REQUIRED IN SMALL QUANTITIES...............................................................55<br>CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT WORK...........................................................................56<br>BACTERIOLOGY DEPARTMENT WORK........................................................................58<br>WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PLANT PATHOLOGY, 1918-1937................................................61<br>SOIL CULTIVATION AND MANAGEMENT.....................................................................71<br>STATISTICAL DEPARTMENT..............................................................................71<br>MIVROBIOLOGY DEPARTMENT.............................................................................72<br>ENTOMOLOGY..........................................................................................72<br>INSECTICIDES .......................................................................................73<br>INVESTIGATIONS ON HONEY.............................................................................73<br>THE FARM............................................................................................73<br>INSECT PESTS AT ROTHAMSTED AND WOBURN, 1937.........................................................74<br>FUNGUS DISEASES AT ROTHAMSTED AND WOBURN, 1937......................................................75<br>MALTING BARLEY......................................................................................77<br>CHANGES IN STAFF....................................................................................80<br>FARM REPORT, 1937...................................................................................81<br>METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.........................................................................89<br>Scientific Papers Published In 1937.................................................................92<br>CROPS, PLANT GROWTH, PLANT PRODUCTS AND ACTION OF MANURES...........................................92<br>STATISTICAL METHODS AND RESULTS.....................................................................95<br>THE SOIL............................................................................................97<br>THE PLANT IN DISEASE : CONTROL OF DISEASE...........................................................101<br>APICULTURAL PROBLEMS................................................................................106<br>Technical and Other Papers Published in 1937........................................................107<br>GENERAL.............................................................................................107<br>CROPS, SOILS AND FERTILISERS........................................................................108<br>BIOLOGICAL..........................................................................................109<br>Woburn Experimental Farm ...........................................................................110<br>LABORABORY AND FARM REPORT FOR 1937.................................................................110<br>DATES OF OPERATIONS AND YIELDS......................................................................116<br>Dates Of Sowing And Harvesting, And Yield Per Acre, 1937/Dates Of Operation And Yields, Rothamsted..119<br>Rothamsted Experimental Plots 1937..................................................................122<br>CHEMICAL ANALYSES Of Manures Used In Replicated Experiments, 1937..................................123<br>THE CLASSICAL EXPERIMENTS...........................................................................126<br>CONTINUOUS ROTATION EXPERIMENTS ....................................................................137<br>OTHER EXPERIMENTS AT ROTHAMSTED.....................................................................155<br>OTHER EXPERIMENTS AT WOBURN.........................................................................167<br>SPECIAL GROUP OF EXPERIMENTS........................................................................172<br>EXPERIMENTS AT OUTSIDE CENTRES......................................................................199<br>Abbreviated List Of The Field Experiments...........................................................225<br>Lawes Agricultural Trust ; The Incorporated Society For Extending The Rothamsted Experiments........227<br>