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SOILS 



preservation it will be worth your while to watch the 

 mulch, to see if it is still an effective blanket or if the 

 connection with' the capillary tubes below is beginning 

 to take place. If the latter be so, it is high time that 

 you repeat the cultivating work. 



Water-saving means early work. Water-saving falls 

 into two means the catching and holding of it. You 



LOSING WATER FROM THE SOIL 



The soil is cracked to some depth below. Soil moisture is fast leaving the 

 ground, and the soil is in bad physical condition 



first must get water into the soil, and then you can use 

 it ; provided, of course, you do not let it escape before it 

 is needed. Too many tillers of the soil fail to understand 

 that the most important principle at stake in water-saving 

 is to till and cultivate in such a manner that there is free 

 access of water into the soil. Then it can be preserved 



