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Excerpt from Soil Moisture: A Record of the Amount of Water Contained in Soils During the Month of May, 1895 Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a report upon the amount of water contained in some important types of soil in different portions of the United States. The marked effect of different amounts of rain upon the yield and quantity Of crops is familiar to all in the everyday experience of farmers. It will be seen from these records that, owing to the difference in the texture of soils, even with the same amount of rainfall, soils retain very different amounts of water. As crops require very different conditions of water for their best development, this dif ference in the water content of soils very largely accounts for the peculiar adaptation of certain soils -to certain classes of crops. A good truck soil in a favorable season will contain about 5 per cent, or one twentieth of its weight, of water; and grass land, on the other hand, should contain 20 per cent, or one-fifth of its weight, of water; These are characteristic differences due to the peculiar texture of these lands and their relation to water. The actual amount of water contained in the soil determines the character of the season, the actual amount of rainfall being no reliable measure of this. These records show the actual conditions of moisture available to plants in these soils. It is not possible at present to draw reliable deductions from these records until more data is collected, and they are therefore given for the present with little comment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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