THE NEW EARTH 



created not only showing larger yields and as 

 great nutrition in experimental plots, but in 

 the thousand-acre farm of the advanced Amer- 

 ican agriculturist as well. More than this, 

 wheats have been bred to fit a climate, redeem- 

 ing vast areas of abandoned land supposed to 

 be wholly unfitted for wheat production. 



New corns have been created, far richer in 

 food values, far larger in yield, than the best 

 known types of the past. More than this, corns 

 have been created at the command of man for 

 any one of a series of specific purposes, — to be 

 rich in one element and lean in another, to be 

 suitable for food of man or food of beast. They 

 are, in a word, as much the creation of man as 

 the beautiful vase in the hand of the potter. 



All this has not been accomplished in a day. 

 It has not been effected without large outlay 

 of time and energy, It has been accomplished 

 after many and crushing disappointments. To 

 create a new wheat, bringing into life a plant 

 before unknown to the world is a primal act. 

 Select from a race of food-providers two factors 

 unable in themselves, or through the aid of 

 nature, to produce other than a certain progeny; 

 then, setting aside the customs, indeed the laws, 



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