Open AccessNOTE ON THlE DETERMINATION OF MOISTURE IN PASTURE SAMPLES
Author(s) -
B. W. Doak
Publication year - 1934
Publication title -
proceedings of the new zealand grassland association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-4577
pISSN - 0369-3902
DOI - 10.33584/jnzg.1934.3.801
Subject(s) - moisture , pasture , environmental science , water content , mathematics , statistics , geography , meteorology , forestry , geology , geotechnical engineering
Investigators in the course of analysis of herbage samples appear to have treated the determination of moisture as one of the simple determinations which can hardly go wrong. Various workers have used dryi-ng ovens at 1000 - 103O and have left samples in the ovens for periods of six to twentyfour hours. Probably each worker has kept to a fairly constant procedure and by this means has obtained duplicates which agree within reasonable limits. Naturally they have taken the results so obtained to be correct.