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Studies in crop variation: IV. The experimental determination of the value of top dressings with cereals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

T. Eden
Affiliation:
(Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts.)
R. A. Fisher
Affiliation:
(Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts.)

Extract

The practice of applying nitrogenous fertilisers to cereal crops as a top dressing is one which has become firmly incorporated into normal farm routine.

The classic wheat experiment on Broadbalk field shows that to apply all the nitrogenous fertiliser at the time of drilling the seed in autumn leads to a diminution in crop when compared with the yield of a plot in which only a quarter of the nitrogenous fertiliser was applied in autumn.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1927

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Fisher, R. A. (1925). Statistical methods for research workers. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh.Google Scholar