SOILS LABORATORY MANUAL 

 AND NOTE BOOK 



INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING LABORATORY WORK IX SOILS 



1. Students will he expected to i)e in the laborator}' and ready for work 

 at the appointed time for the period to begin. 



2. A schedule will be found in the laboratory indicating the exercise for 

 each student or group of students to perform for each period. 



3. Students will be held responsible for the breakage of all apparatus. 



4. Experiments should be carefully labelled with tlie o^\Tier's name and 

 set away before leaving the laboratory. 



5. Some of the experiments require a small amount of daily attention. 

 This must be given in all cases and credit will be allowed. 



6. Experiments should be completed promptly and when finished the 

 apparatus should be cleaned as quick!}' as possible. 



7. Each experiment must be written up promptly after the time that it 

 is completed. 



8. All questions should be clearly and fully answered in the note book. 

 The report for two experiments should never be confused — let each be com- 

 plete in itself. Note books will be graded on correctness of the results of 

 the experiments, the way in which the experiment is written up, and the 

 neatness of the work. 



9. Before commencing an exercise, read over the object and directions 

 ver>^ carefully. Be sure that you understand clearly what is to be done before 

 you commence work. 



10. The following list of reference books, along with the text-books in 

 use by the students should be consulted in writing up the results of the 

 exercises. If possible, they should be on a special shelf in the library. 



