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Show WATER CONSUMED BY CROPS Farmer Must Spsre No Pains to Preserve Pre-serve Protective Dry Soil Covering Cov-ering Drink Bill Is Big. The drink bill for the crops Is Immense. Im-mense. It takes 90.000 pounds of water wa-ter to grow a bushel of whest No matter bow rich your soli may be you can grow only as many bushels of wheat as will be represented by the pounds of available water In the soil divided by 90,000 says the Farm Magazine. Mag-azine. An Inch of rainfall weighs 227.000 pounds per acre. Ikies that mean that we can grow bushels per acre for every Inch of rainfall at the rate of 227.000x90.000, or about two and a half bushels? By no means. No matter bow well we till the land a lot of water will get away. The warm winds of summer stesl It by the ton every day. Here's the lesson as given by the professors of the Wisconsin Experiment Station. "If dry farming Is to succeed, the 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 con tain layers of gravel or hardpan, bnt must be uniform In texture to a depth of eight eet Throughout the entire growing season the man who practlcee dry farming must spare no pains to preserve the protective dry soil cov-trtng." |