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The Partial Sterilisation of the Soil by means of Caustic Lime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

H. B. Hutchinson
Affiliation:
Lawes Agricultural Trust, Rothamsted Experimental Station.

Extract

The practical advantages accruing from the use of lime are now generally recognised, but on account of the complexity of the changes induced it is by no means easy to determine, in the case of a field soil, the exact extent to which one effect or set of effects has contributed to the general improvement of the soil in relation to its crop-producing power.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1913

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References

page 320 note 1 This Journal, vol. III, Part 2, 1909.Google Scholar

page 322 note 1 Since going to press, the author ha s found similar increases in bacterial numbers recorded by Fischer (Landw. Versuchs-Stat., 1909, 70, p. 335Google Scholar), who attributes them to stimulation effects.

page 325 note 1 This soil was obtained from one of the Woburn plots which have been rendered distinctly acid by continuous applications of ammonium sulphate, and was kindly placed at the disposal of the author by Dr J. A. Voelcker, Director of the Station.