book of the Rothamsted experiments ...
By: Issued with the authority of the Lawes agricultural trust committee.
Contributors: Warington, Robert, 1838-1907.; Lawes Agricultural Trust Committee.
Publisher: E.P. Dutton and company
Published: 1905
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Lawes, J. B. -- 1814-1900.; Gilbert, Joseph Henry, -- Sir, -- 1817-1901.; Rothamsted Experimental Station.; Agriculture -- Experimentation.; Agricultural chemistry.
Notes: Contains biographies of Sir John Bennet Lawes, and Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert, by R. Warington.
Table of contents: value: CONTENTS.; value: Preface.; value: Biographical introduction [Sir John Bennet Lawes, Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert. By R. Warington. Reprinted from obituary notices of the Royal society]; value: The sources of the nitrogen of vegetation.; value: Meteorological observations.; value: The composition of the Rothamsted soil.; value: Experiments upon wheat.; value: Experiments upon barley.; value: Experiments upon oats.; value: Experiments upon root-crops grown continuously on the same land.; value: Experiments upon the continous growth of leguminous crops.; value: Experiments upon grass land mown for hay every year.; value: Experiments upon crops grown in rotation, Agdell field.; value: Nitrification and the composition of drainage waters.; value: The feeding experiments.; value: Miscellanoues enquires.; value: Appendix I : I. List of publications issued from the Rothamsted experimental station, 1843-1905 : p. [273]-283. II. Publications by other investigators, dealing with material from Rothamsted : p. 283-284. III. Other publications dealing with the Rothamsted experiments : p. 284-285.; value: Appendix II. : Officials.; value: Appendix III : List of past and present workers at the Rothamsted experimental station.Index.