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stalk ground. An exaination of the sample that was 

 taken from the land under the Campbell culture shows a 

 bunch of roots forty in number, ranging from two to four 

 inches in length, each of which is strong and vigorous. From 

 this bunch of roots have sprung eight stalks now ranging 

 from nine to twelve inches in length. This all comes from 

 one grain of wheat that may be seen just in the center of 

 the bunch of roots. On the land that was disked in among 

 the corn stalks I had to take five bunches of roots to get 

 eight stalks, and the}^ did not average more than one-half 

 the size or length of the others, and the roots in the five 

 bunches are not half as much as the others in bulk or 

 length. These two samples of growing wheat, taken as 

 they were from land otherwise just alike except in the 

 manner of cultivation and seeded about the same time, is 

 a glaring example of the value of your experiments and 

 researches in the interests of the f armmers in the semi-arid 

 belt, and it would be to the financial interest of these pro- 

 pie if some means could be devised whereby results of your 

 years of experience and experiments could be given much 

 wider circulation, especially for those who are just coming 

 into this section." 



A KANSAS EXPERIENCE. 



The following letter written by J. B. Beal, chief land 

 examiner of the Union Tacific land department, to Land 

 Commissioner Houtz, at Omaha, Aug. 1, 1904, from Grain- 

 field, Kas., tells an interesting story of results: 



"You wrote me on the 6th of May in answer to a letter 

 I wrote you about the field of wheat east of Grainfield that 

 we looked at when you were here, I thought I would wait 

 until the wheat was harvested and thrashed and then give 

 you a full synopsis of the matter. All of this has taken 



