Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . Sr/^A/G^T 3J^KfA/l/U£ J^PJ^f^f^rS /K^i^77/Vc//^//^/?(y/iLTiNG gdeffiolmt) V^PT/C/Jl l/A/r5 P^PPf3fr/r /^C/2fA5£3 //VMO/$r</P^ PfPCf/vrAOf3 PUf TO /PP/OAT/OA/0/^PP£3f/VT3 PfPC/^AfTAC^ 0/= AfO/5T(/P£ AT PAT£ O/ SAAfPZ//VO- Fie. 7.—Diagram showing seasonal variation in soil moisture percentage, Hofhenke alfalfa field, Los Molinos, 1914. ALFALFA IRRIGATION IN SACRAMENTO VALLEY. 27 Geer Field. Variations in soil moisture percentages in this field areshown in figure 8. Tlie soil of
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . Sr/^A/G^T 3J^KfA/l/U£ J^PJ^f^f^rS /K^i^77/Vc//^//^/?(y/iLTiNG gdeffiolmt) V^PT/C/Jl l/A/r5 P^PPf3fr/r /^C/2fA5£3 //VMO/$r</P^ PfPCf/vrAOf3 PUf TO /PP/OAT/OA/0/^PP£3f/VT3 PfPC/^AfTAC^ 0/= AfO/5T(/P£ AT PAT£ O/ SAAfPZ//VO- Fie. 7.—Diagram showing seasonal variation in soil moisture percentage, Hofhenke alfalfa field, Los Molinos, 1914. ALFALFA IRRIGATION IN SACRAMENTO VALLEY. 27 Geer Field. Variations in soil moisture percentages in this field areshown in figure 8. Tlie soil of this field ivS classed as a clay loam ofthe Vina series, the upper two feet being distinctly heavier than theunderlying soil, which approaches a silt loam very closely. The dia-gram shows the wilting point was reached or closely approached in thelatter part of July nearly to the full depth of the six feet irrigations were given in 1914, the respective depths appliedbeing , , , and inches. Twelve borings for mois-. /fip^oa^ji/? :50i/P zwf ~~-^-J——/^^v^afjj^A/O /^o/:}rc//?^ />f/?c^A/rAO£^yr/?A/(j/vr 3^o/c/^a/ /.//v^^ /^jrp/?/53£/vrs Mir/A6- (y\\j;\HQ cocffkiient) OPfP/?^£/Vr^ PffiCfAVTAGf CF /^O/STUPf AT DATE OF 5AMPL/NG Fig. 8. -Diagram showing seasonal variation in soil moisture percentage, Geer alfalfa field,Los Molinos, 1914. ture determinations were made to a depth of six feet before and afterthe first three irrigations and to a depth of nine feet before and afterthe fourth. These show that the upper six feet of soil retained per acre, or 23 per cent, at the first irrigation, acre-inches per acre, or 18 per cent, at the second irrigation, acre-inchesper acre, or 44 per cent, at the third irrigation, and acre-inchesper acre, or 15 per cent, at the fourth irrigation. At the latter irriga-tion the upper nine feet of soil retained a total of acre-inches peracre, or 20 per cent of the wh
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