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Certain acid soils and growth of sugar beet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

George Newlands
George Newlands
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(Soils Research Department, North of Scotland College of Agriculture, Aberdeen.)
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1. Variations in growth of sugar beet on certain soils from north-east Scotland were investigated by examination of the soils with regard to field conditions, mechanical composition, pH value, lime requirement, readily extractable calcium and humified organic matter.

2. Field conditions and mechanical composition did not account for the variations in growth of the beet.

3. A certain degree of correlation was found between pH value, readily extractable calcium and growth of beet. In general when the pH was below 5·3 and extractable calcium below 0·12 per cent., growth was poor or failed. Above these figures it was good, but only relatively so, since all the soils were below 6·2 in pH value.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , October 1928 , pp. 704 - 712
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1928

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