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infcrior ones are still less formidable. 
Basket-willow growing should be a mat- 
ter of sentiment, and the farmer should 
have a desire to see them grow under 
the best of care and cultivation. Unless 
the farmer does grow the best strains and 
puts his heart into the work, he is not 
worthy even of the meager results he does 
obtain. 
STUDIES OF (ROOT LIFE ® 
HE experts of? the Bureauvot Plant 
Industry of the Department of 
Agriculture are carrying on a most 
valuable work in their investigation of 
root life. Their root experiments with 
plants are the outcome of a study of the 
problems involved in wide and shallow 
planting, as opposed to close, ordinary 
planting. In the former method, a great 
root development would enable the 
farmer to do well with very little rain; in 
the latter, his reliance is entirely on rain. 
experimenters have hitherto been 
handicapped by the absence of a device 
properly to study root growth, but this 
difficulty has been overcome by a mem- 
ber of the Dakota station. He dug a 
trench two feet wide about a block of 
earth in which were growing some 
plants, the roots of which he desired to 
study. When the block stood out alone 
quite clearly, he made a light wooden 
frame to fit around it and covered this 
with common wire poultry netting. This 
held the earth in place and enabled him 
to pierce it through with small wire rods, 
which were then fastened at both ends 
to the netting. When enough of these 
thin wire rods had been run through, to 
hold up the roots in case the earth was 
washed away, he covered the top of the 
ground with a thin plaster of Paris 
paste, which soon dried, holding the 
plants he desired to examine firmly about 
the base. 
The subsequent stages of this process, 
which has been adopted by the Bureau 
experts, involve the washing of the earth 
from about the roots with soft, warm 
water, leaving them wholly exposed and 
suspended upon the wires which had 
been forced through the earth. It Be- 
comes easy then to lift the cage, with its 
plaster of Paris roof, holding the desired 
plants, to such a place as desired for 
study. Care is taken to dig the surround- 
ing trench deep enough in the beginning 
to avoid the possibility of the roots be- 
ing still connected with the earth below. 
The root experimenters have met con- 
siderable difficulties. For one thing, the 
fine threadlike portions of the roots are 
destroyed at their extremities by the 
warm water washing. The threads, how- 
ever, at the points where they ended, 
have been analyzed, and it has been 
found that even at this stage of the prog- 
ress of the nourishment upward, the 
great chemical work, the taking from the 
soil of lime, sodium, nitrogen and the 
like, has been completed by the tiny fila- 
ment. Somewhere, a little farther on in 
the soil which had been washed away, the 
work had been going on. It is the under- 
standing of this process which is now de- 
sired, and which is apparently quite re- 
mote. Nevertheless, some valuable re- 
sults have been already attained. Na- 
turally, the investigations up to this 
time have concerned the plants most 
valuable to man—wheat and corn, pota- 
toes, beans, and the like. 
According to the Bureau’s experts, 
roots seem to possess actual sentience in 
March, Ig1t 
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THIRD EDITION OF 
KIDDER’S 
Churches » Chapels 
By F. E. KIDDERS Anchitect 
This edition has been thoroughly revised by 
the author, and enlarged, many new designs 
being added, including severa! new designs for 
Catholic churches. There are 120 illustrations in 
the text and more than 50 full-page plates. 
The book contains a large number of plans and 
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details of Construction, Heating and Ventilation, 
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