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valuable information and practical assistance as 

 the soil auger. It's intelligent use will disclose 

 much of the folly of our past efforts. With a few 

 minutes time and a little well directed effort on 

 your part, the soil auger will clearly show you how 

 deeply the moisture has percolated into your soil 

 in the spring. With a little investigation and 

 thinking you can see why it has gone deeper into 

 some fields than others, a fact that if understood 

 quite clearly, explains why certain things should 

 or should not be done. It will show you how 

 much real working capital you have on which to 

 begin your season's work and where it is. 



It will show you with surprising correctness 

 how fast this money making moisture will get out 

 of the soil during the early spring days if you 

 leave the packed surface uncultivated. Once 

 allowed to go in this manner it is like money 

 foolishly spent, "lost forever". 



The auger will show you how much more moist- 

 ure the under portion of your plowed land will 

 hold if well packed than if left loose. It will 

 show you how the roots of your wheat, oats, 

 barley and other small grain feed from the top of 

 the moisture first, and how the roots then go 

 down deeper for moisture as it is gradually used 

 up at the top, during the excessive hot weather 

 without rain. During the exrtemely hot June of 

 1913, by using a soil auger we found wheat roots 

 which had gone down over four feet. If you do 

 not have it stored down there the roots can't 

 get it. 



It will show you how completely you hold the 



