The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-23
MIR. Brabham's Tinted Cotton.

So many persons are writing me
in regard to 'ttinted cotton" till am
forced to answer these parties
through the press.
A Bostonian writes me that I am
pirating Mendel. This Hungarian
monk wrote his Claws in 1865, but
they were lost to the world until
! 1900, and all of my theories were
worked out before I ever heard of
Mendel.
Luther Burbank, had he worked
along lines similar to mine, would
have been great aid, but his work
has been confined to horticulture,
and not agriculture. Therefore it
would be impossible to have Bur-
bank as guide.
L have studied both Darwin and
Huxley, but their works are confined
to animals, and not plant life.
None of the botanists refer to
plant breeding; they merely classify
plants and even if they had laid
down all the laws of plant breeding,
and had done it in the same way
that they have classified and named
the different plants, could not un-
derstand much, for the scientists,
from the Mohammedan ascendancy
down to some 500 or 900 years ago,
used Arabic for all scientific pur-
poses. When Greek and Latin
tongues ceased to speak, then the
professions changed from Arabic to
Greek and Latin, because these Ian
guages were dead, and, therefore, the
names they used in the sciences
would ever be the same. All living
languages change, while a dead Ian
guage cannot change. SO the botan-
lists have done me no good.
To the Bible I owe one idea: the
changing of the color of Laban's
cows by Jacob. But I refuse to &C
cept the way Moses said he did it
I i'd est-by placing streaked sticks in
the drinking troughs. Jacob merely
bred cows of a different color to-
gether. He put new and different
blood into his father-in-law's herd.
This is not the only mistake made
by Moses. He looked upon the
mamma and quail as miracle. The
mama bearing oak is there today
bearing the same mama that the
Jews ate in the wilderness. No kind
of birds fear man when they have
never seen man before Ask the old
settlers of the West of the pigeons,
when any one could catch wagon
load by hand as fast as they could
break their necks and throw them
! into a wagon. All travellers in un-
known lands-where man has never
been-know of tAe tameness of all
fowls.
Back to the subject:
/ am under no. Obligations to any
one for the mite I know of plant
breeding. The little / have done has
been done on my own hook" and
this little clearly opens up one of the
largest fields of science; field that
can be worked for thousands of years
by the most learned and dilligent of
men, and even then no inroad will be
made into it. AS Sir Isaac Newton
saw "the great ocean of truth be-.
yond, :" the plant breeder 10000 years
from now can say the same thing.
Not of astronomy as Newton did, but
OF plant breeding, the youngest, the
least known, but one of the most i'm
portant of the sciences.
AS yet it is trackless field. There
are no signboards along the road,
and until some one lays down more
laws than did Mendel the traveller
{ must ''go it blindi' But the fascina
tion along this unexplored path is
wonderful, and the further we go
the greater the fascination becomes.
To my humble way of thinking the
man who communes with nature,
learns a smattering of nature, is in
elined to think that God is nature
and nature is God Were God be-
ing in the shape of man He would
have to be many billions of men at
once to be everywhere -omnipreseni.
Nature is everywhere, therefore we
must think that God and nature
mean the same thing.-A. w. Brab-
ham in the News and Courier.
His Pet Wing.