The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-23
.COBLESS CORN
BURBANK AIM
Spineless Cacu and seedless Crane
Mere Play to This Horticul-
tural Feat.
HE GRAIN HAS POSSIBILITIES.
Three-Ply Bourbon May Make Topper
Shout and Reformer
Grieve.

SAN FRANCISCO, November =
Luther Burbank is now engaged in
the mightiest labor of his eventful
career. He is devoting his wondrous
talents and his restless energies to the
work of taking the cob out OF the
| corn.
Everything that has gone before was
merely preliminary to this chef d'ouvre
of horticulture, this acme of hybridi-
cation. Minimizing the pit in the
| cherry and exercising the stone from
the plum, were child's play compared
with the tremendous effort of giving
| to a waiting world the corn without
the cob. But Burbank is working in
that direction, and has already
achieved sufficient results to make him
confident of success.
POESY MUST GO, BUT
To be sure, some of the poetry of
eating corn on the cob will be removed
from human life, and men who have
! been accustomed to masticate the sue
culent ears with a noise at the table
| not dissimilar to that emitted by a
satisfied porker at his trough, will
have to eat in silence, and let their
minds go back in happy recollection
to the time when they sucked the
sweet juices from the recesses of the
cob and disturbed their neighbors for
ten tables round.
But Burbank is not concerned with
the poesy of the corn, and ever turns
to its practical side There is no APP
peal to him of the frost on the pump
kin or the corn in the shock when he
thinks that there is a tremendous
amount of wasted potential energy
constantly being turned into the use
less corn cob. He proposes to take all
the potential energy there wasted and
all the nutrition that the cob absorbs, |
and put them into the corn itself.
IT HAS POSSIBILITIES.
When Burbank's dream is realized |
the husking bee will be thing of the |
past, it is true, but men will go forth |
and pick a bunch of corn just as they |
now go into the vineyard to Gull a |
bunch of grapes.
But the wizard of Santa Rosa has
not yet enlightened the public as to |
whether an additional potential energy |
Will be given to the Bourbon whisky
made from his new corn, and the
thought of the superiority of the new
jag to anything that has gone before
since the timeNof Noah's historic sosh,
may somewhat give him pause.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union may hold up a monitory and
threatening finger, in case it is ascer-
tanned that the demon rum is to be
given additional energy and a superior
potency through the new corn juice.
THE TOPERS VIEWPOINT.
The topper, on the other hand, may
welcome a corn that makes one drink
go as far as three did before, and he
may elevate Burbank to a proud ped
estal alongside the man who made two
grains of wheat grow where previous
ly there had been one.
And so the thought of the cobless
corn and its juices goes on expanding
into an iridescent dream of tossing
tasse's and tangled feet, with joyous
men gathering together to shout, "Rah
for Burbank! Wh-e-e"
incidentally, Burbank is to have his
works published in the most magnih-
cent edition known to the American
booksellers art. Already he has SUP
piled the copy for ten volumes, tell
ing of how he got the spines off of
the cactus, how he expanded the Shas-
ia daisy; how his potato banished
famine from Ireland, how he babe the
stone in the plum and the seed in the
grape to be gone, and how in his work
of works he is bending toward the
abolition of the cob and the Danish
ment of the husk.
COST $1,000 A SET.
The Cree-Binner Publishing Com
pany of Chicago has in charge the
publication of the wizards tale in ten
volumes, and fifty sets of the work
are to be published at $4,000 a set, with
wonderful toolings of the binding, and
illustrations of the diff
ferent fruits and flowers that have
grown under Burbanks magic touch
But the everybody citizen and wage
Garner need not pay $4,000 for his set
OF Burbank He is to be permitted to
a set which places them within the
reach of humble bankers, struggling
brokers and impecunious millionaires.
Incidentally Oscar r. Binner is telling
the Bohemian Club members all about