Show I 1 WATER HOLDING CAPACITY OF SOLS SOILS A recent publication of the utah agricultural experiment station is one which reports the results of 0 investigations on the water holding capacity of soils as a means of saving irrigation water and preventing the water logging of low lying soils it has long been realized that all soils have a given capacity to hold adier water and that if more water is applied to a soil than it can hold the excess either passes through the soil and is lost as deep percolation or it fills the pore spaces and thus water logs the soil it has not been so generally known however that an ordinary loam soil such as that of the greenville experiment farm near logan in cache valley will retain only about inches of water tor for each foot of soil experiments were also conducted in sevier valley utah and gem valley idaho which confirm the above statement it is clearly shown by the experiments conducted that water capacity has a direct bearing on the attainment of economy in the use of irrigation water 4 it is particularly noticeable that ten days after r flooding the soil one plat which een given the e excessive x amount of three feet in one irrigation held no more water than an adjoining plat which was given only one third the amount or one toot foot of water con complete idlete results of this series of experiments may be obtained by addressing the experiment station logan utah and asking tor for bulletin no water holding capacities afi of irrigated soils |