Show how rain bores borea holes hole when rain falls it does not actually soak boak into info the earth but bores its way in forming tiny tubes says an interesting article in harpers harper weekly these tubes aro are so small email that it would be impossible to insert a hair tn in one of them without bursting its walls walla sometimes the tubes ore are bored down to a depth of four or five feet when the surface dries the water evaporates from the tubes just as aa it would from a pipe it the tube is twisted it takes longer for the water to evaporate it if one takes a rake and stirs the ground after each rain he breaks the tops of the tubes and the water will stand in them for months in this way the farmers of the west on the abe semiarid semi arid lands store etore the rain fall one beer and raise a crop of wheat every other year there being sufficient arter in two years but not enough I 1 in a one to raise a crop |