Soil textures

 Soil texture - refers to the different soil particles when touched or courseness or finess of individual soil particles. It is the proportion of sand, silt and clay soil particles that make up the mineral fraction of the soil. 

Soil structure can be determined by the following methods

1.Feel method

• In the text is commonly.      determined by the sense of feel. The soil is rubbed between thumb and fingers under wet conditions.

Sands feel gritty and its particles can be easily seen

Silt when dry feels like flour and talcum powder and slightly plastic when wet

Clay particles feel very plastic and exhibit stickiness when wet and hard under dry conditions.

2. By making a sausage 

• can also determined by try to mould and rub them in the form of sausage. 

Sands cannot form a sausage form, it's particles are never sticks together. 

Silt they can form a sausage form but will have cracks.

Clay can easily moulded into a sausage form, because they ate so sticky wet and they are good to mould.