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The Saxmundham rotation experiments: rotation I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

P. J. O. Trist  and
D. A. Boyd
P. J. O. Trist
Affiliation:
N.A.A.S., Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
D. A. Boyd
Affiliation:
Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts.
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At Saxmundham Experimental Station in East Suffolk a four-course rotation experiment testing fertilizer treatments has continued with only minor modifications since the 1899/1900 crop year, the crops being wheat, roots (mainly mangolds), barley and either beans, peas or clover. Factorial combinations of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K), with two additional treatments testing farm-yard manure and bonemeal, are applied annually to the same plots regardless of crop.

All crops, particularly mangolds and sugar beet, yielded badly without P. N was as important as P for cereals, but had little effect on mangolds and sugar beet unless P was also applied; its effects on the legume yields were slight. On this heavy soil K had little effect on the yield of any crops except the legumes.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 66 , Issue 3 , June 1966 , pp. 327 - 336
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1966

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