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it has grown. Of the six rice-like kernels which you see, two were from 

 the tip of the ear, two from the stem end, and two from the center ; all but 

 one having sprouted though with little vigor. No. 4, from an especially 

 fine ear of white Western corn, has been photographed " life size," that 

 you might see the fine fuzzy " working " roots which take up the food 

 from the soil ; the pointed, ivory-like, boring tips by which the roots force 

 their way into the earth ; and the strong, up-springing shoot which 

 would grow to be a tall corn plant and bear from three to a half dozen 

 ears of corn as fine as itself, perhaps. (Page 2.) 



