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The Amount and Composition of the Drainage through Unmanured and Uncropped Land, Barnfield, Rothamsted

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

N. H. J. Miller
N. H. J. Miller
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(Lawes Agricultural Trust.)
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During the last sixty years numerous percolation and evaporation experiments have been made in this country and elsewhere. The method employed has been that originally used by Dalton, which has the advantage that the chemical and physical properties of the soil may, if desired, be thoroughly investigated. In addition to these experiments in which the evaporation from the soil, or from the soil with vegetation, is estimated by deducting the amount of drainage from the rainfall of the same period, numerous determinations of soil moisture have been made in the United States, from which evaporation may be directly determined. The difference between the estimated evaporation and the rainfall gives of course the amount of percolation.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , March 1906 , pp. 377 - 399
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1906

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