@article{nwisrl81, year = {1971}, pages = {136--137}, volume = {52}, author = {William H. Heinemann}, title = {A Green Plant Sample Slicer}, number = {3}, journal = {Agricultural Engineering}, url = {https://eprints.nwisrl.ars.usda.gov/id/eprint/81/}, abstract = {DURING the growing season many sugar beet petioles, cornstalks, corn leaves and other green crop samples are required for analyses. These samples usually are sliced into small uniform pieces. The former slicing procedure took too much time, did not produce samples of uniform length, and did not always cut the stringy portion of the material. There was also the danger of one sample contaminating the next.} }