Report 1925-26 with the Supplement to the Guide to the Experimental Plots
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1926
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: malting barley
subject: potatoes
subject: liming
subject: legumes
subject: lucerne
subject: cellulose
subject: sewage
subject: insecticides
subject: disease resistance
subject: disease control

description: Scanned PDF of Report 1925-26 with the Supplement to the Guide to the Experimental Plots
description: Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1925-1926 With The Supplement to the Guide to the Experimental Plots..1<br>Rothamsted Laboratories, Erected 1914-16............................................................2<br>Contents............................................................................................4<br>Rothamsted Experimental Station and Woburn Experimental Farm Staff List.............................6<br>Publications Of Rothamsted Experimental Station.....................................................11<br>Introduction - General Account of Rothamsted........................................................14<br>Rothamsted Report For The Years 1925, 1926..........................................................16<br>FERTILISER INVESTIGATIONS...........................................................................17<br>Results on Malting Barley...........................................................................20<br>Results on Potatoes.................................................................................22<br>Manuring of Grassland...............................................................................24<br>Law of Diminishing Returns..........................................................................25<br>METHODS OF FIELD EXPERIMENTATION....................................................................26<br>INFLUENCE OF WEATHER ON YIELDS......................................................................29<br>THE USE OF LIME AND LIMESTONE.......................................................................30<br>CULTIVATION STUDIES.................................................................................31<br>GENERAL SOIL PHYSICS................................................................................35<br>Work in the Empire..................................................................................36<br>SOIL MICROBIOLOGY...................................................................................37<br>APPLICATIONS OF SOIL MICROBIOLOGY...................................................................40<br>Inoculation of Lucerne and other Leguminous Crops ..................................................40<br>Partial Sterilisation...............................................................................42<br>Production of Manure from Waste Cellulose Materials.................................................42<br>Microbiology and Treatment of Sewage...............................................................43<br>LOSSES OF CROPS BY DISEASES AND PESTS...............................................................44<br>INSECTICIDES........................................................................................47<br>PLANT RESISTANCE AND IMMUNITY TO FUNGUS DISEASE.....................................................49<br>VIRUS DISEASES OF PLANTS............................................................................50<br>BEE INVESTIGATIONS..................................................................................50<br>METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.........................................................................52<br>Summaries of Papers Published, 1924, 1925 - I. Scientific Papers....................................54<br>CROPS, PLANT GROWTH AND FERTILISER INVESTIGATIONS...................................................54<br>STATISTICAL METHODS AND RESULTS.....................................................................59<br>THE SOIL............................................................................................62<br>THE SOIL POPULATION AND ITS BEHAVIOUR...............................................................72<br>THE PLANT IN DISEASE; CONTROL OF DISEASE............................................................78<br>Summaries of Papers Published, 1924, 1925 - II. Technical Papers....................................85<br>Rothamsted Experimental Plots.......................................................................90<br>Rothamsted Farm &amp; Crop Results, Rothamsted, 1925, 1926.............................................90<br>Woburn Report for 1925, 1926........................................................................94<br>Yields Of Experimental Plots 1925, 1926 ............................................................122<br>The Use Of The Standard Error In Field Experiments..................................................122<br>The Classical Experiments...........................................................................123<br>Replicated Experiments .............................................................................138<br>Lawes Agricultural Trust, Trustees And Committee; Society For Extending The Rothamsted Experiments..156<br>