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Identifier: lutherburbanksbo00binn (find matches)
Title: Luther Burbank's bounties from nature to man
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: (Binner, Oscar E., co., Chicago) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Burbank, Luther, 1849- (from old catalog)
Publisher: (Chicago, Oscar E. Binner co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n, that intraining plant life to produce its best for humanity,Luther Burbank directly influences human life to keeppace with plant life. //rs actual, practical gifts to the race are beyondcomparison, and can not be estimated in millions ofdollars or even in great statements of the advance inmans physical comfort and welfare.^ —Benjamin Fay Mills. Telling His Methods to the Public Motive For the last twenty-five years Luther Burbank hasbeen continuously besieged by people in all parts of theworld for information bearing upon his discoveries.It is a physical impossibility to satisfy the inquiries,there being no published records of his methods. Boston Luther Burbank soldfive leaves of SpinelessCactus for enough tobuild him a new home.Cactus with the thornseliminated by intelli-gent cultivation hasgreat possibilities asa forage crop in ariddistricts, and the fiveleaves sold by thegreat scientist of theplant world went to aforeign governmen;tfor propagation pur-poses. —Boston Herald.
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BURBANKS WALNUT TREE.-Willgrow to a height of 80 feet, and a circumfer-ence of 6 feet (at the height of a mans head) in 17 years, as against a height of 20feet and a circumference of 1 >^ feet of a native walnut tree in 35 years. Mr. Burbanksblack walnut, the Royal, is the lumber tree of the future. Within twelve years fromplanting its lumber would yield $3,000 per acre, without care or outlay, save the costof planting (which does not exceed $2.00 per treej, taxes and interest. New York The laborer is worthy of his hire, and Mr. Burbank should reap abundantly therewards of his indefatigable persistence and potent investigations. For one thingit is to be hoped that before his pen drops from his hand, he will put forth a bookwhich will tell us whereof he knows, so as to add to the comfort, the health, anddelectation of his fellowmen, who shall profit by the beneficent results of hiswonder work when he, too, shall have passed over to the silent majority. —The Christian Work and Evan

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