The Rothamsted Experiments on the Growth of Wheat, Barley, and the Mixed Herbage of Grass LandH. Cox, 1888 - 235 pages |
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Page 2 - The following points have been investigated : 1. The amount of food, and its several constituents, consumed in relation to a given live weight of animal within a given time. 2. The amount of food, and of its several constituents, consumed to produce a given amount of increase in live weight. 3. The proportion, and relative development, of the different organs or parts of different animals. 4. The proximate and ultimate composition...
Page 87 - ... favourable seasons, and may, as a rule, be relied upon when barley is taken, not after folding, but after another corn crop. The questions to be solved by the experiments on barley may be stated in the same terms as were employed in introducing the Report of the results obtained with wheat : — " What are the grainyielding capabilities of such land ? — what its powers of endurance ? — in what constituents, or class of constituents, does it soonest show signs of exhaustion ? — and how far...
Page 222 - ... normal botanical composition of the herbage, and the changes induced, by the application of the different manuring agents, and by variations in the climatal conditions of the different seasons ; and, as far as may be, to ascertain what are the special characters of growth, above-ground or under-ground, normal or induced, by virtue of which the various species have dominated, or have been dominated over, in the struggle which has ensued.
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Page 69 - ... whilst it is in May, June, and July, the months of excess of temperature, that the deficiency is by far the most marked. It is in these three months too that the number of rainy days is the most below the average. In the cases, then, of small produce of straw, but of high proportion of corn to straw, the result was associated with little more than fairly average conditions as to temperature during the early stages of development of the plant, but with a considerable excess during the period of...
Page 201 - ... applied would generally be much less than in some of these special experiments ; and the losses by drainage would from that cause alone be proportionately less than that shown above. Much, obviously, would also depend upon the character of the soil and of the subsoil. Again, in an ordinary rotation of crops, more of the supplied nitrogen would probably be gathered up before it reached the lower layers, than in the case of a cereal crop grown year after year on the same land.
Page 18 - the records of a tield of 14. acres in which wheat has been grown without manure, and by different descriptions of manure, for twenty successive seasons, without either fallow or a fallow crop, and in which the lowest produce was in the first year...
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