Show STOP ESCAPE OF MOISTURE farmer in semiarid semi arid arld regions should use every endeavor to prevent V evaporation of water r t the escape of moisture not the lack of it Is Is what what has baa do done no the s so 0 called dry west the gr greater pater charm bariff today toda y we passed a spot where two men were digging a collar cellar lt it Is in a very dry country where all crops must be irrig irrigated amedi and the subsoil after going down a foot or two Is almost as hard as and has to be loosened by a sharp pick or by dynamite across this cellar soil an oil road had been made which formed a perfectly impervious crust two or three inches deep through this oil crust no mols ture could by any possibility go to the soil beneath ati it and on the other hand not a p particle article i of mot moisture sture could e escape from the soil under it into th the 1 air above agthe As the men slowly dug into the flinty dry subsoil just beside this hard waterproof water proof surface th they e y remarked that when they got under the road where no rain moisture could vy by any possibility come they feared it would be like rock curious tabei to bei see if just the opposite might not proa prove id 0 o be the tase case the writer lRA wit a sharp pick succeeded in baring a good strip of the goll eoll under the oll oil road to alb the surprise ok of the d iggers diggers both soil adt i and subsoil soll under this air fight covering g was so I 1 moist that it t could be spaded ada g readily with but very little bs use e of the pick we ve cannot ca ant cover our farms alt h airtight air tight protector protector b but ut in in every N way vay in our power we wa should shut off evaporation fory the high winds the dry alt air and the hat sun all C combine t to 6 take the moisture from our soil just when we need it most that is one great reason why the forest condition brought about bythe b te cool shady protection of the fhe corn field leaves our corn land with elih so m much uca more mot moisture sture in it than open roadways baysor or grain fields the cultivation too tends to take the place of the oiled roadway for this reason too our grains should be put in e early arlland and as soon as poss possible ble be made fo t 0 shade and protect the surface 80 soil the same principle Involved is when on some soils some seasons the grain does so much better for biding being lightly harrowed when two inches or so high it Is why lightly dis disked kedor or sharply har bar 1 rowed stubble land grows better corn or grain jf if thus treated the moment the snow now is off anything and everything 1 that will tend to prevent the escape of subsoil moisture will tend just as strongly Etron gly to give uga us a good crop and a certain 0 one no evaporation should be headed off in every way I 1 in our power it is like letting ours our money run to wast to letour let our soil moisture got get away from us |