2 edition of Report on an experiment on the manuring of oats. found in the catalog.
Report on an experiment on the manuring of oats.
William G.R Paterson
Published
by West of Scotland Agricultural College in Ayr .
Written in English
Edition Notes
| Series | Bulletin -- 82 |
| Contributions | West of Scotland Agricultural College., WSAC. |
| ID Numbers | |
|---|---|
| Open Library | OL19703643M |
The following are the resultsFrom 3, yards manured with No. When making these assertions I ought to state that my experience of wheat-growing does not extend beyond the counties of York and Lancaster, but from what I can learn of the agriculture of more southerly districts, I fancy these opinions of mine will be found correct even there. As I still continue the experiment, I shall be in a position to continue the account up to the present time as I am now threshing out the last year's cropand will send it to you if you think it worthy of insertion in the "Agricultural Gazette. In the use of silicates of soda and potash, one precaution is very necessary, namely, that you really have a soluble silicate, not a mere mechanical mixture of ground flint and alkali.
Progress in the long-term trials methodology and the mathematical methods of experimental data processing Agroconsult, Moscow. The crop promised to be a very good one, but it was much plundered by the birds, and as the summer was wet, it suffered also much from rust. My experiments so far are opposed to this theory, but it is not very safe or philosophical to draw conclusions from one or two experiments only. Evidence of decreasing mineral density in wheat grain over the last years. Changes in understanding the behaviour of soil and fertiliser phosphorus: implications for their efficient use in agriculture : Paper presented to the International Fertiliser Society at a Conference in Cambridge, 14th December D1 - Technical reports: non-confidential Johnston, A. Environmental myopia: a diagnosis and a remedy.
Rescue grass thrives, and a mixture. I was led into these experiments by reading Liebig's book on the "Chemistry of Agriculture;" for, assuming his theory to be true, it appeared to me to be quite possible to grow wheat on the same land year after year; as, according to that theory, the carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, which constitute the great bulk of all cereal crops both grain and straware supplied in abundance from the soil and atmosphere or perhaps, to speak more correctly, from the latterand we have only to supply those inorganic substances, which, however numerous, form but a small part of the whole weight of the crop. I had a striking proof this season of the much lower temperature required by oats than wheat, when strongly stimulated by manuring. I shall be glad to hear the result of your electrical experiment--at present I am rather sceptical on the subject. Identification of critical soil phosphate P levels for cereal and oilseed rape crops on a range of soil types Final Project Summary. It was not fit to cut for three weeks after the experimental field, although it was an early white wheat, and the result was a miserable crop--far worse than the experimental field.
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Again, the silicate of soda may be properly made, in the first instance, but in a long exposure to the atmosphere, the soda attracts carbonic acid, and is liberated from the silex, and this has disappointed my expectation more than once.
The use of cover crops in cereal-based cropping systems to control nitrate leaching in SE England. Abstracts Bioforsk-konferansenOslo, February Scientific Data. The Norwegians did what they did best and farmed Iceland.
The ability of soil to ensure adequate phosphorus nutrition of the crop; the long-term trials at Rothamsted. Lucerne in Flora Batava, Jan Kops et al. If it is the abstraction of something from the soil, what is that something? The continuing value of long-term field experiments: insights for achieving food security and environmental integrity.
Again, admitting that it is not practicable to grow wheat on the same land year after year on a large scale, yet if we can double the crop in those years in which we do grow it, by the application of chemical manures and the same manures are applicable to all cereal cropswill not that be a conclusion worth arriving at?
Parsimonious modelling of nutrient fluxes for a terrestrial ecosystem on Svalbard A - Papers appearing in refereed journals Stapleton, L. C2 - Non-edited Report on an experiment on the manuring of oats.
book to conferences Powlson, D. Fully sensible of my inability to do justice to this important subject, I yet hope if you do me the honour to publish my letter that my remarks may induce scientific men to consider it; for it appears unaccountable to me that hitherto they seem to have thought it unworthy of their attention.
Responses of soil clay mineralogy in the Rothamsted Classical Experiments in relation to management practice and changing land use. Des experimentations de longue duree sur la recherche en environnement. Journal Of Archaeological Science. In the first year's experiment the produce from guano alone was 27 bushels per acre, and both straw and wheat were very indifferent in quality.
With respect to the lime used, it may be as well to state that the field had not been limed for many years, and although in a limestone district, showed a deficiency of lime on analysis. My idea is that it does both, and that carbon in the soil does good if it offers an abundant supply of carbonic acid to the plant when it is in a condition to appropriate it.
I also saw Liebig's letters explaining the action of quicklime in liberating potash from the clay; and then I considered it very important to ascertain the proper quantity to be applied. Accumulation of carbon and nitrogen by old arable land reverting to woodland A - Papers appearing in refereed journals Poulton, P.
I would be inclined to put the estimate closer to a population size from 8, to 9,Mar 26, · In a field experiment on red clover, Dahlin and Stenberg () have recently shown similar amounts of total BG‐N in cut and uncut treatments; the decrease in biomass was compensated by an increase in Ndfr in response to the cutting.
Nonetheless, the proportion of BGP‐N to total plant‐derived N was higher in the intact plants (65%) than Cited by: In this review, we draw together research on the use of green and brown manures in wheat cropping systems in Mediterranean-type environments in the light of contemporary pressures on cropping systems including changing climates, increasing costs and declining profit tjarrodbonta.com by: 9.
Print and Export. Save/Print: PDF (with OCR) pages. Generated on the fly.The Project Gutenberg EBook of Agriculture for Beginners, by Charles William Burkett pdf Frank Lincoln Stevens and Daniel Harvey Hill This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.The effects of crop rotation, tillage practice, and herbicide use on the population dynamics of wild oats (Avena fatua and A.
sterilis ssp. ludoviciana) were studied in a field experiment in.That the same exhaustion of soil would go on in Great Ebook, if unchecked by manuring, is known to ebook practical farmer, and, if evidence were needed, it is supplied by the renowned Rothamsted experiments of Lawes and Gilbert, on a heavy land, and also by the more recent Woburn experiments of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, conducted on a light sandy soil.
