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The Woburn Field Experiments, 1914. 



of house-flies in localities where cavalry or artillery were 

 quartered in August. It directed attention to the fact that in 

 normal times the substitution of motor-traction for horses had 

 very much diminished the fly nuisance, for stables and manure 

 heaps are the favourite breeding places of the insects, which 

 only enter houses in search for food. 



Cecil Warburton. 



School of Agriculture, 

 Cambridge. 



THE WOBURN EXPERIMENTAL 



STATION OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL 



SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 



FIELD EXPERIMENTS, 1914. 



continuous wheat .... 

 continuous barley .... 

 rotation experiments — the unexhausted 



value of corn and cake 

 green-manuring experiments . 

 varieties of wheat .... 

 influence of magnesia on wheat . 

 influence of magnesia on mangolds 

 varieties of barley .... 

 varieties of oats .... 

 clover and grass mixtures 

 varieties of rye-grass 

 varieties of lucerne 

 inoculation of leguminous crops . 

 varieties of linseed 



soya bean 



grass experiments .... 



Rainfall at Woburn, 1914 . 

 POT-CULTURE EXPERIMENTS, 1914. 



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I. Hills' Experiments : — 



(a) The influe7ice of Copper Salts on Wheat . . . 306 



(h) The influence of Lead Salts 0)1 Wheat . . .312 



II. The Relation of Lime to Magnesia in Soils : — 



The addition of Lime to a soil rich in Magnesia . . 313 



III. Acidity of Soils. Stackvard Field, Continuous 



Barley, 1914 315 



IV. Inoculation of Crops (Bottomley's Peat Pre- 



paration) ......... 318 



V. Sewage Sludge Experiments ' 322 



