Seed and soil inoculation for leguminous crops / by W.B. Bottomley.

  • Bottomley, William Beecroft, 1863-1922.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Seed and soil inoculation for leguminous crops / by W.B. Bottomley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    King’s Co. Peas.—Inoculated rows liave borne most ex- cellent crops, much better than in former years. Beans.—A very marked difference was showii in growth of the broad beans—those which I had not inoculated being much smaller and fewer. During the year, reports have come to hand of various experi- ments in different parts of the country, with inoculating material obtained from abroad. In many cases excellent results have been obtained, as indicated by the three following reports ;— ENGLAND. Rotiiamsted. Clover.—Land which was known to have carried no leguminous crop for the last 50 years was planted with red clover .seed and j-ielded as follows :— Plot A. Inoculated with Hiltner’s preparation from Cwts. Germany' 76.4 ., R. Inoculated with Moore’s prejiaration from America 72.9 ,, C. Uninoculated .. .. .. .. 61.9 SCOTLAND. West of Scotland Agricultural College. Beans.— Professor Wright reports :—“ On all the farms (five) on which “ the inoculation proved beneficial the increase of crop “ obtained was enough to give a verj' satisfactory’^ return for “ the labour and cost. An average increase of 364 lbs. grain “ ])er acre as compared with 3^ cwts. of straw shows clearly “ that the inoculation, while it gave a larger crop of straw, “ increased the yield of beans in a much greater degree, and “ hence the effect of this additional treatment has been to “ enhance still further the grain-producing character of the “ bean crop. The average return, amounting to about 44 “ bushels beans and 34 cw ts. bean straw’ per acre, would have “ formed a sufficient return for a much higher expenditure. ‘ But, apart from one failure, and making due allowance for “ the discrepancies inseparable from field experiments, the “ results, on the whole, tend to show' that, under suitable “ conditions and on ordinary’ bean soils, the practice of inocu- j “ lation appears likely’ to be beneficial and profitable.”