The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

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garden and offered him twenty-five
cents q cutting, and Burbank said no.
Then he offered fifty cents, then a
dollar, and Burbank said no, and the
man saidsI'll give you $4,000 for the
lot" and Burbank said mo, no, have
not done my best with them, I'm not
through. Come back in ten years and
I'll sell to you Now he has develop
ed the plum until it has in it no seed
at all and is as large as q peach.
Burbank was hungry in those first
days; he begged scrap meat at the
markets and cooked it and that with
bread was his only food. :,
High Cost Of Living.
Professor Adrian said in part: ITO
day one-third the human race is
hungry. I'll tell you the cause of the
high cost Of living. Uncle Sam has
been adding to his family million
every year and his bread box has
not increased in proportion. The
great problem before us today is how
to make every acre produce more. We
can't work any harder, SO we will
have to mix brains with the soil and
that's what luther burbank does.
Mark Twain says the cauliflower Is
just cabbage with an education
The orange was originally a berry
and Burbank has gotten rid of the
seeds in the great luctous fruit. The
first seedless orange tree still stands
in Santa Ana, Calf The corn was
originally two rows of seeds on a
blade Of grass. Seed selection has
made the great ear Of corn OF today.
There is a man down in Missouri
who is working to make the rag weed
plant fit to feed cattle. He has 1T
partly completed, the cattle will eat
his educated rag weed, but 1t still
ta1nts the milk little. In two years
he says, he'll be rid Of that, and
new cattle food will be given to the
world.
Through an accident In Judge
Logan's garden in California, black
berry was crossed with raspberry,
and a new fruit, the logan berry, was
given to the world. The Bible said
ages ago that the desert should bios
som as the rose We didn't believe It,
called it the land that God had for
gotten. Burbank has breu away the
spines of the cactus and developed 1t
into a food for cattle. The apples
which grow on the cactus is delic-
ious fruit for man. The cactus fiber
makes paper. From 1t starch and
sugar can be made. Recently de-
natured alcohol is being produced
from the cactus. Some day you auto
mobile people will be independent OF
the Standard Oil company for you
can run your cars with this alcohol.
stones Out Of Peaches.
Burbank Is breeding the stones out
OF reaches and the pits out Of cher
ries. The fruit trees of tomorrow
will be bushes, why use up the soil
for making wood and seeds when It's
fguit we are after? Burbank has an
orchard Of cherry bushes that raise
much more fruit than cherry trees.
Burbank has developed q lumber tree
that in sixteen years has grown to
be 2h feet in diameter and 1t makes
the finest. walnut lumber you ever
saw. He developed this year pure
white, lucious blackberry on thorn
less bush. The price OF beef will go
down because Burbank produces four
hundred tons OF fodder per acre on a
desert farm. Up on the edge OF
Glasier park one day was lecturing
and q man asked me home to supper;
we had for desert blue watermelon
with a ginger flavor. You don't be-
lieye it? Well, it's true. This is
how they did it. When the melon was
about the size of hens egg. the man
threaded tape needle with q porous
piece of yarn and carefully drew 1t
through the stem a half inch from
the melon. He put one end Of the
string in dish Of blue colortng mat
| ter, the other end in dish contain
| ing ginger f1avoring, and kept those
dishes filled and the result was a
| blue watermelon with ginger flavor.
| Out in California we are fattening
pumpkins by hand, feeding them just
that way. We feed some of them
water and molasses and others milk.
Do you want me to tell you who are
the two most useful men alive? They
are Luther Burbank and Thomas A.
Edison" .- ~
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