Report for 1933
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1934
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: fodder crops
subject: animal husbandry
subject: soil chemistry
subject: lucerne
subject: effluents
subject: entomology
subject: insecticides
subject: pest surveys
subject: fungal diseases
subject: disease surveys
subject: disease control

description: Scanned PDF of Report for 1933
description: Rothamsted Experimental Station Report For 1933.....................................................3<br>Rothamsted Laboratories , Erected 1914-1916.........................................................4<br>Contents............................................................................................6<br>Rothamsted Experimental Station; Woburn Experimental Farm ; Imperial Bureau of Soil Staff List......8<br>Publications Of Rothamsted Experimental Station....................................................14<br>Introduction - General Account of Rothamsted........................................................18<br>Rothamsted Report For 1933..........................................................................21<br>THE FIELD WORK......................................................................................22<br>Effect of Fertilisers on Crop Yield and Quality.....................................................24<br>Grassland and Fodder Crops..........................................................................30<br>FARM HUSBANDRY PROBLEMS.............................................................................33<br>PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF SOIL............................................................35<br>LUCERNE AND THE NODULES ORGANISMS...................................................................38<br>SOIL MICROORGANISMS.................................................................................39<br>PURIFICATION OF EFFLUENTS...........................................................................40<br>PLANT PATHOLOGY.....................................................................................40<br>ENTOMOLOGY..........................................................................................41<br>INSECTICIDES........................................................................................43<br>BEES................................................................................................43<br>REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENTS AT ROTHAMSTED IN THE SCIENCE OF STATISTICS...................................44<br>The contributions of Rothamsted to the development of the science of statistics.....................45<br>SUMMARY OF FIFTY YEAR'S WORK AT WOBURN..............................................................52<br>SURVEY OF INSECT PESTS AT ROTHAMSTED AND WOBURN.....................................................53<br>SURVEY OF FUNGUS DISEASES AT ROTHAMSTED AND WOBURN..................................................56<br>ROTHAMSTED FARM REPORT - 1933.......................................................................58<br>METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.........................................................................62<br>Summaries of Papers Published in 1933 - I. Scientific Papers .......................................65<br>CROPS, PLANT GROWTH, PLANT PRODUCTS AND ACTION OF MANURES...........................................65<br>STATISTICAL METHODS AND RESULTS.....................................................................71<br>THE SOIL............................................................................................75<br>MICROBIOLOGY........................................................................................79<br>THE PLANT IN DISEASE : CONTROL OF DISEASE...........................................................80<br>Summaries of Papers Published in 1933 - II.Technical And Other Papers...............................84<br>GENERAL.............................................................................................84<br>CROPS, SOILS AND FERTILISERS........................................................................85<br>BIOLOGICAL..........................................................................................86<br>Woburn Experimental Farm ..........................................................................87<br>Woburn Experimental Farm Report for 1933 ...........................................................87<br>WOBURN FARM REPORT FOR 1933 ........................................................................93<br>DATES OF OPERATIONS AND YIELDS......................................................................94<br>Dates of Operations and Yields, Rothamsted..........................................................97<br>Dates Of Sowing And Harvesting, And Yield Per Acre, Rothamsted, 1933................................97<br>ROTHAMSTED EXPERIMENTAL PLOTS 1933..................................................................99<br>NOTES ON THE SUMMARY TABLES.........................................................................100<br>Chemical Analysis Of Manures Used In Replicated Experiments, 1933...................................102<br>Meteorological Records, 1933........................................................................104<br>THE CLASSICAL EXPERIMENTS...........................................................................105<br>CONTINUOUS ROTATION EXPERIMENTS.....................................................................112<br>OTHER EXPERIMENTS AT ROTHAMSTED.....................................................................124<br>OTHER EXPERIMENTS AT WOBURN.........................................................................150<br>ANIMAL HUSBANDRY EXPERIMENTS........................................................................158<br>SPECIAL GROUPS OF EXPERIMENTS.......................................................................161<br>EXPERIMENTS AT OUTSIDE CENTRES ...................................................................175<br>Abbreviated List Of The Field Experiments...........................................................199<br>Errata for Rothamsted Report 1932...................................................................201<br>Lawes Agricultural Trust ; Trustees And Committee; The Incorporated Society for Extending the Rothamsted Experiments..202<br>