Show o v HARRIS HAnnIS A AND D I PITTMAN TELL I RESULTS ALKALI Ua EXPERIMENTS A recent issue of the Journal of Agricultural Research contains an article reporting the results of at one phase of at the research work ark on alkali which is being conducted by Dr F. F S S. S Harris and D. D W. W Pittman of the Utah experiment station The Tho work which was as done in the laboratories got of of the station was undertaken to determine determine de de- de- de termine the quantity of salts that prohibit the growth of crops and whether or not this varied with different different dif dif- ferent salts and soils containing different dif dit- terent ferent amounts of water and humus More rore than tumblers rs containing containing containing con con- various soils Boils wore were prepared to which were added different quantities quantities quantities quan quan- of various crops were planted and dally daily notes taken on the number of plants up and other observable data At the end of twenty-one twenty days a careful harvest was made and the thedr dr dry matter produced in m each tumbler tumbler determined and recorded A very vel interesting In Interesting Interesting In- In feature of the article Is the twenty twenty- twenty seven even diagrams prepared to show in a concrete form torm the number of plants up and amid the dry matter produced produced produced pro pro- In twenty one days under the various conditions t The practical conclusions derived t from the work which should be of at especial interest to the farmers of the the arid and rid west where alkali Is one of oC the greatest problems are stated by the l authors as follows l 1 1 Loam soils and s soils ils with a i I high water holding capacity may maybe may be i j successfully farmed at a higher alka- alka 11 ii content than others others others- f 2 Soils lIs In iri which alkali reduces Cr crop l yi yields should be kept as moist as Is compatible with good plant tr growth 3 Manure or or r other other organic matter should be beneficial to alkali soils especially those high In carbonates car car- i |