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The data given in the table shows that between September, 

 1902, and the following May, 3,171 tons of salt had been removed from 

 the soil to a depth of four feet, and that between September 1902 and 

 the following October, 5,430 tons had been removed, or 82 per cent of 

 the alkali originally in the first four feet of soil. 



The tract was sown to fall rye during the fall of 1903 and this 

 plowed under during the spring of 1904 in order to add humus to the 

 soil. The land was then seeded to alfalfa with oats as a nurse crop. 

 During 1904 a profitable crop of oats was secured and a uniform "stand" 

 of alfalfa established. Since that time the alfalfa on this tract has run 

 normal and healthy and the fact that the removal of alkali salts by drain- 

 age can be accomplished definitely proven. 



Drainage of lands not only removes alkali but prevents water log- 

 ging promotes soil areation and is most desirable farm practice. It is 

 to be hoped that the unsightly, forbidding, desolate stretch of waste 

 alkali lands near Salt Lake City may be converted into beautiful fruit- 

 ful fields of golden harvest, where now there is a dreary waste, through 

 the process of drainage. 



