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Show How doop do Roots Penetrate? Few, even among farmers and free plantersj seem to-know how deeply and widely roots penetrate and spread in the ground. A writer in Moore's BuraCJfew Yorker states that in all his most careful examinations he ha invariably found the roots of grass, grain, vegetables, fruit and forest trees, occupying all the soil, no matter mat-ter what was its depth. He has taken out stumps where the roots penetrated pen-etrated a hard clay more than eight feet, and has gathered wheat roots b the handfulj in a drain more than three feet beneath the surface. He hence infers that the deeper llie soil can be plowed, and rendered friable and fertile, the better, |