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The washing out of nitrates by drainage water from uncropped and unmanured land

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

E. J. Russell ,
E. H. Richards  and
N. H. J. Miller
E. J. Russell
Affiliation:
(Rothamsted Experimental Station.)
E. H. Richards
Affiliation:
(Rothamsted Experimental Station.)
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In 1870 Lawes and Gilbert constructed the famous drain gauges at Rothamsted and commenced a series of measurements of the amount and nitrate content of water draining through uncropped and unmanured land. The essential feature of the experiment, and one wherein it differs from many others, is that the soil in the gauges is in its natural condition and has never been disturbed: the gauge was constructed by building a wall around a block of soil and then tunnelling underneath to allow of the construction of a chamber in which the collecting and measuring cylinders could be set up.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , January 1920 , pp. 22 - 43
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1920

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page 22 note 1 Journ. Roy. Ag. Soc., 1881, 42, pp. 269 and 311.Google Scholar

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