Rothamsted Report for 1932
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1933
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: apiculture
subject: sugarbeet
subject: potatoes
subject: fodder crops
subject: legumes
subject: production costs
subject: soil chemistry
subject: viral diseases
subject: insecticides
subject: pest surveys
subject: fungal diseases
subject: disease surveys
subject: disease control

description: Scanned PDF of Rothamsted Report for 1932
description: Rothamsted Experimental Station Report For 1932.....................................................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 The Year 1932.................................................................21<br>IMPROVEMENTS AT THE FARM............................................................................21<br>FIELD EXPERIMENTS...................................................................................23<br>Sugar Beet .........................................................................................24<br>Potatoes ...........................................................................................27<br>Fodder Crops........................................................................................28<br>Inoculation of Legumes..............................................................................30<br>Six Course Rotational Experiment....................................................................32<br>Cereals under Mechanical Conditions.................................................................33<br>Valuation of Farmyard Manure........................................................................34<br>Effect of Leys or Fallow before Wheat...............................................................35<br>Barley..............................................................................................37<br>COMPOSITION OF THE BARLEY CROP......................................................................42<br>PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE SOIL.....................................................................44<br>CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF THE SOIL.....................................................................45<br>BIOLOGICAL DECOMPOSITION OF ORGANIC MATTER..........................................................46<br>Purification of Effluents...........................................................................47<br>PLANT PATHOLOGY.....................................................................................47<br>Virus Diseases......................................................................................48<br>INSECT PESTS........................................................................................49<br>BEES................................................................................................51<br>INSECTICIDES........................................................................................51<br>SURVEY OF INSECT PESTS AT ROTHAMSTED AND WOBURN.....................................................52<br>SURVEY OF FUNGUS DISEASES AT ROTHAMSTED AND WOBURN..................................................54<br>ROTHAMSTED FARM REPORT..............................................................................57<br>METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.........................................................................66<br>Summaries of Papers Published In 1932 - I. Scientific Papers .......................................69<br>CROPS, PLANT GROWTH, PLANT PRODUCTS AND ACTION OF MANURES...........................................69<br>STATISTICAL METHODS AND RESULTS.....................................................................75<br>THE SOIL............................................................................................80<br>MICROBIOLOGY........................................................................................85<br>THE PLANT IN DISEASE : CONTROL OF DISEASE...........................................................89<br>Summaries Of Papers Published in 1932 II. Technical and Other Papers ...............................93<br>GENERAL.............................................................................................93<br>CROPS, SOILS AND FERTILISERS........................................................................93<br>BIOLOGICAL..........................................................................................94<br>Woburn Experimental Farm ...........................................................................96<br>Woburn Experimental Farm Report 1932 ...............................................................96<br>Report by Mr H. G. Miller...........................................................................102<br>Dates of Operations , and yields....................................................................105<br>Rothamsted Experimental Plots, 1932 ................................................................109<br>DATE OF OPERATIONS, AND YIELDS......................................................................110<br>THE CLASSICAL EXPERIMENTS...........................................................................117<br>CONTINUOUS ROTATION EXPERIMENTS.....................................................................129<br>OTHER EXPERIMENTS AT ROTHAMSTED.....................................................................138<br>OTHER EXPERIMENTS AT WOBURN.........................................................................165<br>EXPERIMENTS AT OUTSIDE CENTRES......................................................................171<br>Lawes Agricultural Trust; Trustees And Committee; The Incorporated Society for Extending the Rothamsted Experiments..229<br>