The Kusko times., 1926-04-24

States grant, Congress under special act turning over 1880 acres of non- irrigable land to be ocated either in California, Nevada or Arizona.
 It has been estimated that Bur- banks 100000 or more experiments with plant, life involved the planting, pollenation, observation and propaga- tion or destruction of billion indi- vidual vegetable growths. From this vast number, however, only 385 were selected and recommended by him as of value to humanity. Some of these were under his observation for 25 years before being given, to the world.
 Several fine varieties of spineleSs blackberry. now grown around the world, were bred from a wild variety that was considered useless in it's na- tive state. A certain variety of rhu- barb. under Burbanks magic touch, increased it's stalks from the size of a lead pencil to that of a mans wrist, and was made perpetual, instead of bearing for few weeks only. Can ners appealed to him for perfect pea, one which would mature all of its crop, retain uniformity of size and all ripen at the same time.<, After three years of work he met the de- mand.
 Flowers, fruits, grapes, grasses, vegetables, even orchard and forest trees, were improved and given to the world in new usefulness through months and years of patient and ire quently discouraging experiments.
 Wonderful as many of Burbank's achievements with. vegetable plant and flower life seem to the layman, the methods by which they were ac complished were not, in themselves remarkable. Patience was, the chief requisite to his success. Deciding first what he wanted to create, re- m4ke-or improve. oif ln2the vegetable world, he began by carefully selecting robust specimens, allowing them to go to seed, / then experimenting with the seeds under widely different acon- ditions of climate, fertilization and nourishment.. The product would in turn be submitted to radical changes, from the natural elements, and the product of this would undergo further experimentation and so the artificial evolution progressed until the final re- suit either met the wizards require mentstor was abandoned as useless.
 When experiments with -seeds1 alone were not entirely satisfactory, graft ing upon the seeds or upon fresh young shoots often was employed. It was through a combination of these methods, fortified by his inexhaust- ible patience, that enabled Burbank to impaEs delightful odorss to naturally iIl=smelling flowers; to grow gigantic pants. from dwarf varieties, and to produce calla lily only one inch in diameter when fully grown. These are but a few of the queer anomalies resulting from the heretofore unheard of liberties he took with. natures veg etation.
 Burbank's experimental farnls at Santa Rosa and Sebastopol, 1 nearby town, ,hecame Mecca for statesmen, kings, princes, philanthropists, horti- eulturists, biologists, botanists and humanitarians as the fames of their owner spread. Never of a conner cial turn, Burbank permitted an asso- citation. known as The Luther Bur bank Society, chartered by the State of California and sendowed by wealthy patrons, to disseminate the knowledge | plan and vegetables which he worked out.
 In addition to the Congressional rrant of land, his work was recog-