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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

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.

TABLE

I.—Samples taken from farms of the University of Illinois, and of E. O. Chester, Champaign County, Illinois.

Weight of soilounces Per cent, to depth of 2 Weight after dryingounces Loss of water— ounces Per cent, of Average per JN umber

LOCATION.

University farm—corn A u g . 1, 1887

field

1 n e a r t i l e d r a i n , 1' 2 2'

88 90.5 93 111.5

78 80 83 99.5 75 80.5 64 77.5 91.5 85 102 87.5 70.5 69 64 67.5 67.5 62.5 70 72.5 85.5 73 76 71 71.5 78.5 69 76.5 69 79.5 74 82 67 62.5 82.5 55.5 68.5 66.5 70.5 62.5

10 10.5 10 12.5 9.5 14.5 7.5 14 13 12 13.5 10.5 6 9 5.5 9.5 8 9 9.5 10 11 11.5 10 10.5 11.5 12 8 12 11 13.5 11.5 14 6 8 7 7.5 6 9.5 7.5 9.5

12.8 13.1 12.0 12.6 12.7 18.0 11.7 18.0 14.2 14.1 13.2 12.0 8.5 13.0 8.6 14.0 11.8 14.4 13.6 13.8 12.9 15.8 13.2 14.8 16.0 15.2 11.6 15.8 16.0 17.0 15.5 17.1 9.0 12.8 8.5 13.6 8.8 14.3 10.6 15.2

13.0 12.3

12.7

3 U n i v e r s i t y f a r m — c o r n field 15 r o d s f r o m t i l e 8' 4 d r a i n , A u g . 2,1887 4' 5 U n i v e r s i t y f a r m — o a t s t u b b l e n e a r t i l e d r a i n , 5' A u g . 2,1887 6 6' 7 f r o m 7' 8 8'

84.5 95 71.5 91.5 104.5 97 115.5 98 76.5 78 69.5 77 75.5 71.5 79.5 82.5 96.5 84.5 86 81.5

15.4 14.9

15.2

14.2 12.6

13.4

10.8 11.3

11.1

U n i v e r s i t y f a r m — o a t s t u b b l e 10 r o d s t i l e d r a i n , A u g . 2,1887

9 E . 0 . C h e s t e r ' s f a r m — o a t s t u b b l e , n o t t i l e d , 9' 10 A u g 6, 1887 10' 11 E . 0 . C h e s t e r ' s f a r m — o a t s t u b b l e , t i l e d , A u g . 11' 12 6,1887 12'

13.1 13.7

13.4

14.4 14.0

14.2

13 E . 0 . C h e s t e r ' s f a r m — b r o o m - c o r n field, n o t 13' 14 t i l e d , A u g . 6,1887 14'

83 90.5 77 88.5 80 93 85.5 96

15.6 13.7

14.7

E . 0 . Chester's farm—broom-corn A u g . 6,1887

15 field,tiled, 15' 16 16'

16.5 16.3

16.4

University farm—clover 1887

17 s t u b b l e , A u g . 10, 17' 18 18' 21 21 22 22'

73 70.5 89.5 63 74.5 76 78 72

10.9 11.1

11.0

11.6 12.9

12.3

U n i v e r s i t y f a r m — p a s t u r e , A u g . 10,1887