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in two instances — in an oat stubble and a clover stubble. The 

 clover was green and growing, while blue grass and timothy on 

 adjacent soil containing an average of 9.7 per cent, of water, was 

 parcbed. The highest per cent, in first foot, 16.0, was found in a 

 broom-corn field in two instances, in one instance tiled and one un- 

 tiled. Twelve per cent was the lowest found in second foot, being in 

 an oat stubble, and 18.4 the highest, being in a corn field. 



Comparing the average of 40 samples taken on tiled and untiled 

 land, which are in some measure comparable, there was found to be 

 in two feet of tiled soil 14.1 per cent, of water, and 13.2 in untiled 

 land. In first foot, 13.6 in tiled and 11.3 in untiled; in second foot, 

 14.5 in tiled and 15.0 in untiled. Comparing Nos. 9 to 16, which 

 for reasons before given are the only samples strictly comparable as 

 to tiled and untiled land, there was found in two feet of soil 15 3 per 

 cent, of water in tiled, and 14.0 in untiled land; in first foot, 14.4 

 in tiled, and 13.3 in untiled; in second foot, 16.2 in tiled, and 14.8 in 

 untiled. 



Fifty-six samples of soil, taken in fields growing cultivated and 

 uncultivated crops, show somewhat more moisture in soil growing 

 cultivated than in that growing uncultivated crops. In two feet 

 deep there was an average of 13.6 per cent, in the soil in cultivated 

 crops, and 11.6 per cent, in that in uncultivated crops; in first foot 

 12.0 vs. 10.3, and in second foot 15.0 vs. 12.8 per cent., respectively. 



In an artificial test of cultivated and uncultivated fallow land, 

 the uncultivated was found to lose nearly twice as much moisture as 

 the cultivated land. The excess of water lost in uncultivated land 

 in one week was equal to a rainfall of one-fourth inch. 



[See pages 108 and 109 for Tables I, II, and II L] 



