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RECENT experiments at this Station on water-stable soil aggregates in a Bridgehampton silt loam have indicated that quantity of soil organic matter is not a reliable index of efficiency in the formation and stabilization of aggregates1,2. These investigations involved soils in frames that had been in redtop–potato and red clover–potato rotations for a long period of time—redtop I (1933), redtop II (1950), red clover (1950), continuous potatoes (1933). Crop yields were closely related to aggregation, and fresh additions of organic residues in the rotation systems enhanced aggregate formation.
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SALOMON, M. Hexosamines in Soil Aggregates. Nature 200, 500 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200500a0
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