THE LUTHER BURBANK SOCIETY 



"The addition of a single extra kernel to the 

 head means a fifteen million bushel annual wheat 

 increase; or a twenty million bushel oats increase; 

 or a two million bushel barley increase. 



"A single extra tuber added to each potato 

 plant in America would mean a twenty-one mil- 

 lion bushel crop increase, with no more cost for 

 planting, cultivation or care, and the barest frac- 

 tion of a per cent., only, to be added to the cost 

 of harvesting. 



"By such slight transformations as these, year 

 after year, the benefits, small as to the individual 

 plant, but astounding as to the aggregate, would 

 fall into the lap of the agriculturist, not only in 

 America, but everywhere on earth where plants 

 can be made to grow from the soil. 



"And if their direct monetary benefits run thus 

 into the millions and hundreds of millions an- 

 nually, who can estimate the broad upward influ- 

 ence which such plant improvements will have on 

 society at large? 



"Truly, they will be felt by all classes of people 

 everywhere they will be shared even by those 

 who were not aware of their immediate causes." 



Hand in hand with Luther Burbank's ambition 

 even in the darkest days of discouragement, and 

 almost from boyhood, was an earnest determina- 

 tion to give to the world the formulae and experi- 



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