Identifier: appendixtojourna19033cali (find matches)
Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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040.552.556.5 9.010.521.027.5 IQhrs 55.0niin6.5 As was expected the rates of flow in the different cylinders werematerially increased, averaging about two hours faster to a depth ofthirteen mches This emphasizes the importance, in practice, ofkeeping the surface of the soil loose, thus increasing the amount ofirrigation or rain water entering the soil in a given time. Here againhowever some difficulty was experienced in securing uniform resultsespecially with the smaller tubes. It seemed almost impossible to get acylinder filled twice m the same way: and the most divergent results 162 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFOENIA—EXPERIMENT STATION. were the consequence. Thus, in six trials with the f-inch and T%-inchrenders Tfferenoes of all the way from four to seven hours wereobtained- and these, too, after the most careful weighings and fillingsIn sheerdesperatio. the old method of filling in the entire weight ofoil at one Ume, instead of piecemeal to the graduated marks, was Time, in liours. •ui-
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