The Physical Properties of Soils: A Laboratory Guide (Classic Reprint)

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The experiments described on the following pages are designed especially for the use of the students in the four-year course in agriculture in colleges and universities.

These exercises will give sufficient work to cover two or three terms, depending upon the number of hours devoted to laboratory practice each week. An effort has been made to outline the experiments as clearly and concisely as possible, in order that the student may take up each exercise without delay.

While these practices are the outcome of several years' experience in teaching Soil Physics at the Ohio State University, they are not all original with the author. Material has been drawn from various sources, and so arranged that it may be adapted to instruction in soils under a wide range of conditions.

Acknowledgment is due my assistant, Mr. G. R. Hyslop, for valuable suggestions and aid in working out these practices, and to the following for material and suggestions, Prof. M. F. Miller, University of Missouri, Prof. E. O. Pippin, Cornell University, Dr. L. J. Briggs, U. S. Dept. Of Agriculture, Professors Stevenson and Schaub of Iowa State College, and others.

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