Report for 1939-45
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1946
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 cultivation
subject: soil microorganisms
subject: viral diseases
subject: fungal diseases
subject: earthworms
subject: slugs
subject: pest control
subject: apiculture
subject: entomology
subject: insecticides

description: Scanned PDF of Report for 1939-45
description: Rothamsted Experimental Station Report For 1939-1945................................................1<br>Rothamsted Laboratories , Erected 1914-1916.........................................................2<br>Contents............................................................................................3<br>The Lawes Agricultural Trust; Trustees And Committee; The Incorporated Society For Extending The Rothamsted Experiments..5<br>Rothamsted Experimental Station; Woburn Experimental Station; Imperial Bureau of Soil - Imperial College of Science and Technology -Research Institute of Physiology And Agricultural Research Council Unit Of Soil Metabolism Staff List..6<br>Introduction........................................................................................15<br>Rothamsted Report By The Director 1939-1945.........................................................17<br>The Centenary Celebrations..........................................................................17<br>Retirement Of Sir John Russell......................................................................18<br>Improvements To Laboratories And Farm Buildings.....................................................18<br>The Work Of The Station In War-Time.................................................................19<br>Soils And Crop Nutrition............................................................................20<br>Soil-Moisture And Cultivation Studies...............................................................21<br>Nodule Bacteria And Other Soil Micro-Organisms......................................................22<br>Virus Diseases Of Plants............................................................................22<br>Fungus Diseases.....................................................................................23<br>Studies Of Earthworms, Slugs And Various Insects....................................................23<br>The Control Of Insect Pests.........................................................................24<br>The Diseases Of Bees................................................................................26<br>The Application Of Statistical Methods..............................................................26<br>The Classical And Other Field Experiments...........................................................28<br>Woburn Experimental Station ........................................................................29<br>Publications Of Russell And Ogg.....................................................................30<br>Departmental Reports (publications and abstracts at end of section).................................32<br>Physics Department..................................................................................32<br>Chemistry Department................................................................................50<br>Soil Microbiology Department........................................................................68<br>Botany Department...................................................................................89<br>Crop Physiology Department..........................................................................99<br>Statistics Department...............................................................................106<br>Plant Pathology Department..........................................................................124<br>Biochemistry Department.............................................................................155<br>Entomology Department...............................................................................158<br>Bee Department......................................................................................194<br>Insecticides And Fungicides Department..............................................................206<br>Field Experiments On The Rothamsted Farm............................................................233<br>The Farm............................................................................................240<br>Woburn Experimental Station.........................................................................253<br>War-Time Fertiliser Policy (Joint Report By The Departments Of Statistics And Chemistry)............262<br>Publications Of Rothamsted Experimental Station.....................................................266<br>Map Of Rothamsted Experimental Farm 1946............................................................271<br>