Show F SOIL MOISTURE ral factor are ara cited in bulletin isford by the Ne brata ca expert ment station t the nebraska braskA experiment station recently issued a bulletin on just ut arte ka be storage and uee use of boll soll mola N this bulletin ie in a brief di discue ricus tam aw of vork work done at the north platte substation abt atlon relative to the and of mil soil moisture it treats of 0 the possibilities 6 of blaring storing water in tho the log iou during daring certain periods edba be used later la in conjunction with the rainfall tall several of the facto influencing tha tho of water in th soil oil are die o 0 cured sum summer mer tillage baa has boon been tae the moat most method of davir bat but even by this method only from 10 to 13 per cent of the seasonal 1 lm US been stored in the soil A discue discus don lion of the amount of water retained bj by summer tillage during each of 0 the pait past several years shown that the amount of water stored vari with the amount and distribution of the rainfall during the period covered by the summer tillage it haa has been found that 1 rater sater stored in tho the soil before leeding seeding la is a safeguard against drought tut but it has not been found possible to tore store enough water in the loll 1011 before seeding to mature a crop without cub sequent eju ent rains disking small grain st rabble bag proved beneficial by preventing weed groth ath whenever he never there ha has been suf moisture in the soil stal at harvest I 1 time to produce a crop of weede weeds or here where rains have come party parly enough to tart start weed growth plowing has been bogn batter aban disk las ing in that it more thoroughly kills all weed growth and in the case of leavy a rains plowed land will absorb more water than disked hind because it la 13 more thoroughly stirred artificial mulches of straw dr or hay bay have proved more effective than soil mulches in ab absorbing bing aud and retaining water from m mine ins spring wheat oath barley and orn feed to an average depth of four feet in thie this soil winter winfer wheat feeds to a depth of six or seven feet alfalfa and grasses use water from greater depths weeds are the greatest agency for the loss of water from the soil pro pre tenting venting weed growth has had been more important from the in standpoint tand point of ator stori ing water in the soil than cultivating the soil to produce any kind of a mulch |