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The Soils and Crops of the Market-Garden District of Biggleswade

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

Theodore Rigg
Affiliation:
(School of Agriculture, Cambridge.)

Extract

Within the last two or three years the attention of the agricultural world has been directed to the importance of the correlation of the chemical and physical properties of soils with the crops and systems of agriculture which farmers have found most suitable to them.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1916

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