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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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e public; Luther Burbanks discoveriesare not patented or exploited for the benefit of capital,but given to the world freely, quietly and unosten-tatiously, have produced more wealth direct to thepublic than most of the great inventions, and havedirectly increased the profits of every individual en-gaged or interested in the pursuit of land-culture inevery form. Benefits To Humanity Commercial It is impossible to even estimate the possibilitiesand wealth created by Burbanks discoveries. Afaint idea may be gathered from the following: onekernel added to each head of corn, wheat, oats, barley,grown in the United States will produce without costor effort the following number of extra bushels: Barley 1,500,000 Wheat .... 15,000,000 Corn 5,200,000 Oats 20,000,000 One tuber added to each potato plant produces21,000,000 extra bushels for each crop. According to an official statement of the UnitedStates Department of Agriculture at Washingtonthe Burbank potato alone is adding seventeen million
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BURBANKS SHASTA DAISY. Natural Size and Color. California Burbank has enriched the world with thousands of fruits and flowers, whichbut for him would have existed among the conceivable possibilities of creation. Hehas helped mankind by increasing enormously the economic value of plant life. —David Starr Jordan, President Stanford University.6 C ommercial Benefits—continued dollars a year to the agricultural productivity of thiscountry. Every cent added to the pound value of the Prunecrop by improving its quality means an additionalrevenue of two million dollars a year to the growersof California alone. Every pound of prunes addedto each tree means an additional million dollars a yearto the one State. The commercial value of BurbanksThornless Cactus and Royal Black Walnut is so im-mense and of such voluminous importance to theUnited States and foreign nations, that mere figures,without analysis, would seem preposterous, and as thisspace is limited, the information is published in a

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