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To assess the moisture, use is made of the Assman psychrometer with the addition of a simple and easily made adaptation, which consists of a square polished metal box 4 in. × 4 in. × 2½ in., open at one end. Two holes, sufficiently large to hold the box against the air tubes by means of the threaded ends of the psychrometer cups, are punched in the closed end of the box, equidistant from the sides. In the middle of the bottom edge of each side a ½-in. square cut is made, and when the box is fitted over the psychrometer cups, the instrument is ready for use on livestock.
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MABON, R. A Simple Method of assessing the Moisture exuded through the Skin of Cattle. Nature 177, 284–285 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177284a0
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