Rothamsted Report for 1936
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1937
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: apiculture
subject: sugarbeet
subject: malting barley
subject: insecticides
subject: entomology
subject: fungal diseases
subject: disease control

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description: Rothamsted Experimental Station Report For 1936.....................................................3<br>Rothamsted Laboratories , Erected 1914-1916.........................................................4<br>Contents............................................................................................6<br>Rothamsted Experimental Station; Woburn Experimental Station; Imperial Bureau of Soils Staff List...8<br>Publications Of Rothamsted Experimental Station....................................................15<br>Introduction - General Account of Rothamsted........................................................19<br>Rothamsted Report for 1936..........................................................................23<br>GRASSLAND INVESTIGATIONS............................................................................23<br>RELATION OF CULTIVATION TO CROP YIELDS..............................................................39<br>EFFECT OF FALLOW ON SUBSEQUENT YIELDS...............................................................51<br>THE USE OF STRAW AS MANURE..........................................................................53<br>DRIED POULTRY MANURE................................................................................57<br>FERTILISERS REQUIREMENTS OF SUGAR BEET..............................................................59<br>MALTING BARLEY......................................................................................62<br>SOIL MICROBIOLOGY...................................................................................65<br>PLANT PATHOLOGY.....................................................................................65<br>FIELD EXPERIMENTATION AT ROTHAMSTED, 1926-1936......................................................66<br>FERMENTATION DEPARTMENT, 1913-1936..................................................................76<br>DEPARTMENT OF INSECTICIDES AND FUNGICIDES , 1918-1936...............................................86<br>ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT, 1915-1936.................................................................101<br>INSECT PESTS AT ROTHAMSTED AND WOBURN, 1936.........................................................122<br>FUNGUS DISEASES AT ROTHAMSTED AND WOBURN, 1936......................................................124<br>ROTHAMSTED FARM REPORT, 1936........................................................................124<br>METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.........................................................................133<br>Scientific Papers Published in 1936.................................................................136<br>CROPS, PLANT GROWTH, PLANT PRODUCTS AND ACTION OF MANURES...........................................136<br>STATISTICAL METHODS AND RESULTS.....................................................................143<br>THE SOIL............................................................................................146<br>MICROBIOLOGY........................................................................................148<br>THE PLANT IN DISEASE : CONTROL OF DISEASE...........................................................149<br>APICULTURAL PROBLEMS................................................................................153<br>Technical And Other Papers Published in 1936.......................................................154<br>GENERAL.............................................................................................154<br>CROPS, SOILS AND FERTILISERS........................................................................154<br>BIOLOGICAL..........................................................................................155<br>Woburn Experimental Farm ...........................................................................157<br>REPORT FOR 1936.....................................................................................157<br>FARM REPORT.........................................................................................162<br>DATES OF OPERATIONS AND YIELDS WOBURN...............................................................163<br>Dates of Operations and Yields, Rothamsted..........................................................167<br>Dates Of Sowing And Harvesting, And Yield Per Acre, Rothamsted, 1936................................167<br>Rothamsted Experimental Plots, 1936 ................................................................172<br>NOTES ON THE SUMMARY TABLES.........................................................................172<br>Chemical Analyses Of Manures Used In Replicated Experiments, 1936...................................176<br>Meteorological Records, 1936........................................................................178<br>THE CLASSICAL EXPERIMENTS...........................................................................179<br>CONTINUOUS ROTATION EXPERIMENTS.....................................................................189<br>OTHER EXPERIMENTS AT ROTHAMSTED.....................................................................207<br>OTHER EXPERIMENTS AT WOBURN.........................................................................226<br>SPECIAL GROUPS OF EXPERIMENTS.......................................................................235<br>EXPERIMENTS AT OUTSIDE CENTRES......................................................................264<br>Abbreviated List Of The Field Experiments ..........................................................294<br>Errata in 1935 Rothamsted Report....................................................................295<br>Lawes Agricultural Trust; Trustees And Committee; The Incorporated Society for Extending the Rothamsted Experiments..296<br>