Improved Method for Determining Dry Matter in Silage
Open Access
- 1 October 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Dairy Science Association in Journal of Dairy Science
- Vol. 48 (10) , 1324-1328
- https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(65)88457-0
Abstract
After isolating the moisture from a silage sample by toluene distillation, the alcohol and the volatile bases and acids in the distillate are determined quantitatively and added to the determined dry matter. Depending on the prevailing acids in the silage, the simplified, one-acid correction or the more precise multi-acid correction can be used. According to the proportion of alcohol, volatile fatty acids and bases in silage and the extraction time used, the underestimation of dry matter can reach 10%.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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