. Dry-farming; . iiG. 29. Rainwater moving downward through soil becomes changed into a capillary film of water around the soil particles. sandy loam, 14 per cent. Leather found that in the calcareous arid soil of India the upper 5 feet con- tained 18 per cent of water at the close of the wet season. It may be concluded, therefore, that the field-water capacities of ordinary dry-farm soils are not very high, ranging from 15 to 20 per cent, with an average for ordinary dry-farm soils in the neighborhood of

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