Show WHY irrigating IS BETTER THAN sprinkling lINC wet fields and marshy spots are ar often the first to show the effects of dry weather says rays the U S department of agriculture A lawn that is sprinkled every day suffers more it the family goes on a vacation and neglects the sprinkling than a nearby lawn that has had to depend oa 0 rain for most of its moisture last years long drought emphasized this both in town and country this results from the general habit of plants to take life easy and to develop along lines of least resistance si in a marsh or a wet field the he surface moisture is almost always adequate and roots develop near the surface because they do not need to seek and plant food in the lower levels ordinarily roots do not grow well in water goggel boll boil when the surface dries out the plant may be unable to tap the water in the sub aub soil similarly the well sprinkled lawn develops a root system lust just beneath the surface and it if the upper layer of soil dries the lawn may soon look be bare and brown brow in the wet net or marshy fields the remedy Is paradoxically to tight fight drought by keeping the fields dryer usually by drainage which will fa favor a deeper rooting on the lawn al so the remedy is to apply less waterless frequently but more water at a time tane enough to soak the soil to a depth of several inches then when the surface water evaporates the roots of the grasses push down wardlo ward lo tap reserves of moisture PT |