A Survey and Discussion of Lysimeters and a Bibliography on Their Construction and Performance Classic Reprint

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The first lysimeter in the United States was built by Sturtevant on his farm in Massachusetts in 187 5, and it is interesting to note that this was Of the soil-block type. In 1882 Sturtevant installed another set Of three lysimeters at the experiment station at Geneva, N. Y. These lysimeters were also Of the soil-block type and were transported from the original location to the lysimeter pit. They were constructed Of White oak planks lined with heavy Sheet copper and had a bottom made Of a heavy flat section Of boiler iron. After a number Of years, Babcock and Goff, who continued this work, believed that the lysimeters dried out too readily, and they there fore built four additional lysimeters with an artificially maintained ground-water table. Two Of these lysimeters were Of the soil-block type and two were filled with soil that was previously sifted and dried. The records Obtained from this research do not seem to have been very convincing; for the installation was abandoned in 1890.

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