Show CAPACITY OF IRRIGATED SOIL soila A recent publication of the utah agricultural ri experiment station Is one which reports the results ol of investigations on the water holding capacity of soils as a means ot of saving irrigation water and preventing the waterlog water log ging 0 of low lying soils it has long been realized that all soils have a given capacity to hold water and that it if more water Is applied to a soil than it can hold the excess either passes through the soil and is lost as deep percolation or it fills the pore spaces and thus water logs the soil it has not been so generally known however that an ordinary loam soil such as that of the greenville experiment farm near logan in cache valley will retain only about inches of water for each toot foot ot of soil experiments were also conducted in sevier valley utah and gem valley idaho which confirm the above statement it Is clearly shown by the experiments conducted that water capacity has a direct bearing on the attainment of economy in the use of 0 irrigation water it Is particularly noticeable that t ten en days after flooding the soil one plat which had been given the excessive amount of 3 feet in one irrigation held no more water than an adjoining plat which was given only one third the amount or 1 toot foot of 0 water complete results of this series ot of experiments peri ments may tie be obtained by addressing the experiment station logan utah and asking ashing for or bulletin no water holding capacities of irrigated soils |