EXPERIMENT-II

REQUIREMENTS
Garden soil, roadside soil, measuring cylinders, funnels, filter papers, beakers, balance, oven etc.

PROCEDURE
Take two funnels and line them with filter paper. Label them A and B. Place them on measuring
cylinders. Take 100 gm oven dried sample each of the garden soil and roadside soil. Put the garden soil
in funnel A and roadside soil in funnel B. Pour 100 ml of water in each funnel. Record the volume of
itered out water in the measuring cylinder when the dripping of water stops from the funnel.
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Funnel

Garden soil Filter paper Roadside soil

+water +water

Measuring cylinders

Water that drained

through the soil

Fig. 3.2. Experiment to study water holding capacity of soils.

OBSERVATIONS AND RESULT

Record the observations and result in the table as follows
s. Soil types
No.
Weight Volume of Volume of Volume of Water holding
of water water capacity of the
water
soil (X) poured collected in retained soil in percentage
(Y) measuring the soil (Y-2)/Xx100
1 Garden soil cylinder(2) (Y-2)
2. Road side soil
CONCLUSION
Garden soil has a
higher water
has larger quantities of sand and silt. holding capacity than the roadside soil, because theroadside
o
so

PRECAUTIONS
1.
Weighing of soil samples should be done
slowly and gently on the soil inaccurately
2. Pour water
3. Record the volume of the funnel.
collected water in the
measuring cylinders carefully.