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The effect of subsoiling and different levels of manuring on yields of cereals, lucerne and sugar beet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

R. Hull  and
D. J. Webb
R. Hull
Affiliation:
Broom's Barn Experimental Station, Higham, Bury St Edmunds
D. J. Webb
Affiliation:
Broom's Barn Experimental Station, Higham, Bury St Edmunds
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The effect of subsoiling an old arable clay-loam soil at Broom's Barn Experimental Station, Suffolk, was tested with a sequence of wheat, barley and sugar-beet crops, a lucerne ley and a sugar-beet test crop in the fourth year.

Subsoiling increased the yield of each crop each year, averages over 3 years were: wheat, 0·6 cwt/acre of grain; barley 0·4 cwt/acre; lucerne 0·6 cwt/acre of dry matter. Average increases of sugar beet over 4 years were 0·7 tons/acre of roots or 2·1 cwt/acre of sugar; the increase was greatest (2·9 cwt/acre of sugar) in the first year.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 69 , Issue 2 , October 1967 , pp. 183 - 187
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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