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Show yater Holding Capacity of Soils A rocont publication of tho Utah srlcultural Experiment Station la io which roports tho rosults of Instigations In-stigations on tho water-holding ipaclty or soils as a means of saving rlgatlon wator and preventing tho ator-iogglng of low-lying soils. It has long beon realized that all ills havo a glvon capacity to hold ator, and that If moro water Is ap-iled ap-iled to a soil than It can hold tho cccss clthor passes through tho soil id Is lost as doop porcolatlon or It Us tho poro spneos and thus wator-gs wator-gs tho soil. It has not boon so gonorally known, iwovor, that an ordinary loam soli, ich as that of tho Groonvlllo Expert-ont Expert-ont Farm near Logan In Cacho alloy, will ifttnn cply about 1.25 chos of wator for each foot of soil. Experiments wero also conducted In jvlor Vnlloy, Utah, and Gora Vatloy, laho, which confirm tho abovo stato-ont. stato-ont. It Is clearly shown by tho exponents expon-ents conductod that water capacity is a direct bearing on tho attain-ont attain-ont of economy in tho uso of irrl-itlou irrl-itlou water. It is particularly notlceablo that n days aftor flooding tho soil, ono nt, which had been given tho ox-isslvo ox-isslvo amount of 3 foot In ono lrrl-itlon, lrrl-itlon, hold no moro water than an IJotning plat which was glvon only no-thlrd tho amount, or 1 foot of ator. Comploto rosults of this series of ex- Logan, Utah, and asking for Bullet No. 183 "Wator Holding Capacitii of Irrigated Soils." o Where tho Eio Grande |