The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-02-15

AND my IDEAS OF BURBANK, Sdlu
the casual inquirer, have always
been associated with such things
as his Shasta daisy-his novelties
beautiful, interesting, and valuable.
but offering from a money standpoint
nothing practical. .
Compared with the Burbank potato,
the beautiful Burbank rose seems al
most frivolity Yet one florist on
Long Island, NsW York, says he has
sold from the new varieties which
he has produced according to Bur-
banks advice on hybridizing, over
100000 worth Of plants and flowers.
Here is Luther Burbankhis work
and methods practically a secret.
Here is a world impatiently waiting
to be Informed Here is the work of
forty years ready for widespread dis
semination.
& The Carnegie Institution at Wash
lie of Luther Burbank's records, made
an appropriation of 100000 in 1906
for the purpose off, compiling them
for scientific purposes exclusively.
But the scientific part of Mr. Bur-
banks work, important and interest
ing as it is, is not what the farmer
needs. What he needs is practical
results and definite Instructions on
how to apply them. It is the differ
enee between mathematics and ac-
counting, between the patent office
drawings Of an invention and working
blue prints for manufacturing be-
tween theory and pra ctics
SO hat the C5arnegi IL institution want
ed would have delayed the more
practical achievement OF getting farm
ers everywhere to use the Burbank
methods. So Luther Burbank, inde-
pendent of the Carnegie Institution,
decided to tabulate, analyze, classify
and explain the eopious notes which
he has taken Of all his experiments
in the forty years of his work, and
to do this, not in a way to interest
the scientists-for the Shasta daisy
is of as much interest to the scien-
lists as the Burbank potato-but in.
a way that would make the Burbank
methods clearly understandable by
any average farmer who can read
simple English.
This detailed, specific help is in
part exactly what Luther Burbank has
been preparing during these years,
and now, in order that it may be
placed in the hands of those who
most need it, the Luther Burbank
Society has been chartered by the
state of California
Not organized for profit, but for
the purpose of aiding in spreading the
Burbank methods to the four corners
OF the globe, so that the whole world
may profit, the good which this so
cietys can do is unlimited.
1t can help to give the world
thousand Luther Burbanks instead Of
one. 1t can perpetuate and multiply
Luther Burbank's methods and dis.
coveries instead of allowing them to
die with him. 1t can help to give to
the world better foods at lower
prices. It can convert arid deserts
into blooming, fruit bearing, forage
producing fields. 1t can enable every
man or woman who grows things
from the soil-either for pleasure 81
for prolific improve his yield and
to know the Joy of creating new and
better forms of Dlant-life,
To quote from Mr.. Burbank's own
manuscript, which is now rapidly
nearing its final re-reading:
New creations in pIant-life will
not only produce a renewed interest
in agricultural and horticultural mat
tiers, and in all outdoor life, but they
will make it possible to produce far
greater results with the same amount
of labor and capital. A life in the
open air, amspg plants, near to ma.
lures heart, Elves one health and
self-respect, well as physical ems
DURANGO and mwntal integrity-for the
aighestN intellectual advancement can
be combined with the occupations OF
the soil.
The forthcoming writings are for
the people, not for the scientific in
lestlgator, and hope to explain my
methods in plain, matter-of-fact way
which will be understood by every
body. and especially by the young,
in whom 1 now see a greater inter-
est in nature studies and farln.life
than ever before.
New fruits. nuts. grains, vegeta-
bles, coffee, tea, spice-rubber, oil,
paper, and perfume plants-such as
man has never yet seen-Will be pro-
duced in greatly superior forms with
the precision achieved by the artist,
chemist or mechanic.
Does this mean, do you ask, any
thing for the human race? Yes. for
in the hands Of tho plant-breeder rests
the future destiny Of all mankind 2,
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