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to be cultivated for a long time before it became 

 grain. Without that cultivation the wild corn, 

 which was the first parent of our sweet corn, could 

 never have had such large stalks and leaves, or 

 such thick, juicy seeds, or so many of them, as our 

 corn has. And just think of the difference between a 

 little, sour, wild apple and a great, delicious, rosy 

 Baldwin ! 



Does it seem strange to you that men have also 

 become better and better while they have been busy 

 trying to make the plants improve? It is no more 

 strange than that the bees have made better honey 

 and become more intelligent insects while they were 

 at work helping the flowers! 



It is in this wonderful way that God's law works. 

 Nothing can improve without helping other things 

 to improve, and no one can try to help others without 

 being helped himself. 



