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row has been made fine and firm. The seed has been de- 

 posited in the little V-shaped crevice where germination 

 is rapid and the little rootlets almost immediately begin 

 to meander about in all directions, sending out numerous 

 little feeders to gather in moisture and plant elements. 

 By this rapid development of roots, each doing its part as 

 nature intended, the moisture and plant elements are gath- 

 ered in so rapidly that the little lone stalk cannot take care 

 of it all. This plant element must be utilized in some 

 manner and out comes another tiny stalk, then another, 

 and so nature 'a desire for life and growth goes on in its 

 active work until ten, twenty, fifty and we have seen even 

 one hundred and two perfect stalks with wheat bearing 

 heads grown from one kernel. 



This very marked stooling will take place very largely 

 in proportion to the physical condition of the soil and the 

 amount of available fertility. For example a piece of sand 

 loam prairie with a clay sub-soil such as is found, as a rule, 

 in the great semi-arid belt that has been cropped one or 

 more times, then summer tilled carefully as explained in 

 Chapters 8, 9, and 10, you will have a condition that will 

 not permit of sowing over twenty pounds of winter wheat 

 or twenty-five pounds of spring wheat, and if the work has 

 been well done and in the more arid portion of the semi- 

 arid sections, not more than three-fourths of the above 

 amount should be shown. 



Stools developed under these conditions are very much 

 more likely to carry through and mature. 



