SOME PLANTS WHICH ARE 



BEGGING FOR 

 IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENT 



A ROUGH SURVEY OF 

 THE POSSIBILITIES 



I HAVE finished making an analysis of a number 

 of your fruits," wrote a chemist to Mr. Burbank, 

 "and I find that pectic acid, which is so apt to 

 play havoc with the human digestive tract, and 

 which accounts for the inability of many people 

 to enjoy raw fruit, is almost entirely absent." 



"It must be, then, that I don't like pectic acid," 

 commented Mr. Burbank as he read the letter. 



"It never occurred to me to give the matter of 

 its elimination a thought; so, the only way I can 

 account for the lack of it is that, as I have selected 

 my fruits by tasting, I have preferred those which 

 were low in this content." 



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It would be no small achievement to rebuild 

 our fruits and grains and vegetables to fit the 

 finnicky stomachs which sedentary occupations 



[VOLUME I CHAPTER VIII] 



