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Show Il'l'lh ut lot,. lUots. Tito conclusion which biro been aloptet relativo to deop and ahallor culture, applicable to corn at the prosout seasou of tho year, may bo corroborated, M)Tho Country (lentlemin, by n retir-tnco retir-tnco to tho reportal ciieiimeut made bythoatatlonoftho Uulrerslty of Illinois. Illi-nois. Ily theao experiment it v. as foun 1 tliat ahallow enltivation wa better than deep; nnd that rather more than three-fourth three-fourth of tho root would not have been I roken by cultivating throo lucbea deep, while nearly two-thirds would havolwou broken at four luchoideop. This conclusion con-clusion was drawn from n careful oiam-luatlon oiam-luatlon of tho deptha of tho root A well nelhilr length. Tilneplautanhimtwilre Inch high had altogether tilnoly-foitr root. Plant flvo iuohe high hi 1 root ihirtoen Inch loug, plant tweut) -two incbe hlgh'had root thirty five India loug, Threo-fuurths of tho root wero nt a drpth where they would not hat o lawn injured at throo Incbe depth of culllwi-tlon, culllwi-tlon, while all hut otto would havo been at four inches. |
