Report for 1959
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1960
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: soil surveys
subject: insecticides
subject: entomology
subject: potatoes
subject: beans
subject: apiculture

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description: Report Of Rothamsted Experimental Station For 1959..................................................1<br>Rothamsted Laboratories, Erected 1914-1916..........................................................2<br>Contents............................................................................................3<br>Lawes Agricultural Trust And The Incorporated Society Of Extending The Rothamsted Experiments ......5<br>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 List..6<br>Introduction........................................................................................21<br>General Report .....................................................................................23<br>Departmental Reports................................................................................31<br>Physics Department..................................................................................31<br>Chemistry Department................................................................................38<br>Pedology Department.................................................................................61<br>Soil Microbiology Department........................................................................68<br>Botany Department...................................................................................72<br>Biochemistry Department.............................................................................87<br>Plant Pathology Department..........................................................................94<br>Nematology Department...............................................................................111<br>Insecticides And Fungicides Department..............................................................117<br>Entomology Department...............................................................................132<br>Bee Department......................................................................................144<br>Statistics Department...............................................................................151<br>Field Experiments Section...........................................................................158<br>Combine-Drilling Nitrogen For Spring Cereals........................................................160<br>Farmyard Manure And Its Interactions With Fertilisers...............................................164<br>The Farms : Rothamsted..............................................................................169<br>The Farms : Woburn..................................................................................174<br>The Use Of "Simazine" To Control Weeds In Field Beans And Potatoes : Preliminary Report.............177<br>The Effect Of Two Plant-Growth Hormones On The Pod Set And Yield Of Field Beans.....................180<br>Woburn Experimental Station ........................................................................183<br>Dunholme Field Station..............................................................................188<br>Soil Survey Of England And Wales ...................................................................197<br>Special Reviews.....................................................................................204<br>Infectious Diseases Of The Honeybee.................................................................204<br>The Wheat Bulb Fly Leptihylemyia Coarctata Fall. : A Review Of Current Knowledge Of Its Biology.....216<br>The Exhaustion Land Site : An Account Of Experiments Made Before And During The Period Of Soil Exhaustion..230<br>Abstracts Of Papers ................................................................................240<br>Publications Of Rothamsted Experimental Station.....................................................283<br>Books By Present And Past Members Of Rothamsted Staff...............................................285<br>Map Of Rothamsted Experimental Farm 1958............................................................289<br>