LUTHER BURBANK 
may be harvested by machinery so that the cost of 
handling is cut to the minimum. 
Mr. Burbank took the peas which he had 
selected for form, size, color, taste, content, and 
productiveness; then picked them over and, out 
of tens of thousands, got perhaps one or two 
hundred peas which he planted separately. These, 
then, he harvested by separately counting the 
pods and counting the peas, until he had finally 
combined in his selection not only the best of 
the lot but those which ripened at the same time— 
practically on the same day. Today those Burbank 
Empson peas form the chief industry of a large 
community. 
There are countless other requirements which 
can be equally well met—countless little econ- 
omies which can be taught to the plants—little, 
as applied to any specific plant, but tremendous 
in the aggregate. 
There is, for instance, Mr. Burbank’s new 
canning cherry which, when picked, leaves its 
stone on the tree. It would seem a small thing to 
one eating the cherries as he picks them off the 
tree. Yet, think of the saving, as carload after 
carload of these are brought to the cannery—the 
saving at a time when minutes count, when help 
is short, generally, and when the fruit, because 
of heat, is in danger of spoiling—under these 
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