Show WATER CONSUMED BY CROPS CROP farmer must spare no pains to pro pm serve protective dry soil boll cov erbig drink bill Is big the drink bill for the th crops is ia lm im monse mcnae it takes pounds of water to grow a bushel of wheat no matter how rich your soil may be you can grow only as many bushels ot of wheat as will be represented by the pounds of available water in the soil divided by says the farm magazine an inch ot of rainfall weighs pounds per acre does that mean that we can grow bushels per acre for every inch of rainfall at the tha rate of or about two and a halt half bushels by no means no matter how well we wa till tho the land a lot ot of at water will get away the warm winds winda of summer steal it by the ton every day heres heras the tha lesson as given by the professors of the wisconsin experiment station it dry farming Is to succeed the be farm must be located in a section having a rainfall of ten inches or more and with the least possible wind movement the soil should not coo coal tain layers of gravel or hardpan but must be uniform in texture to a depth of at eight feet throughout the entire growing season the jhb man who practices dry farming must spare no to preserve the protective dry soil covering t |