Third. He has also increased the food 

 value of the Burbank Spineless Cactus 

 very materially. 



Fourth. He has also developed enor- 

 mously the productivity of the cactus, hav- 

 ing, in fact, increased the productivity in 

 many instances over tenfold. 



Fifth. Mr. Burbank has increased the 

 yield of fruit very greatly, and has de- 

 veloped the sugar content, which runs as 

 high as 16 per cent. 



These results are all achieved without 

 special conditions of culture, care or at- 

 tention. 



The remarkable ability of the Burbank 

 Spineless Cactus to thrive with very lit- 

 tle moisture is one which makes millions 

 of acres of heretofore unprofitable land 

 available for the production of enormous 

 crops of cactus forage. On these lands 

 alfalfa and hay could not produce a crop. 



The value of land is fixed by its pro- 

 ductivity. This means, in other words, 

 that the result obtained in the supporting 

 or feeding of livestock from a given acre 

 of land establishes the value of that acre. 

 The Burbank Spineless Cactus, growing 

 under favorable conditions, will produce 

 enough forage without irrigation to sup- 

 port the year around from two to four 

 cows per acre, a record unequalled by any 

 other forage crop. 



As the surrounding conditions become 

 more favorable, the productivity of the 

 cactus is increased. In other words, cac- 



tus is a crop that is adapted to both cheap 

 land and high-priced land. The better 

 the soil and general conditions, the greater 

 the yield. 



It has many advantages over other 

 crops, the chief one being that it is a green 

 succulent forage for livestock THE 

 YEAR ROUND. It does not have to be 

 harvested at any particular season, and if 

 immediate use is not contemplated, the 

 cactus will continue to grow if left in the 

 field. There is no need of harvesting and 

 storing as would be the case with any 

 other forage crop. 



Spineless Cactus is something which is 

 new, and on account of this there are very 

 few who have had extended experience in 

 handling or caring for the cactus, there- 

 fore it is inadvisable to accept the advice 

 of those pretending to be informed, but 

 whose knowledge is limited. Those who 

 plant cactus are urged to read carefully 

 the instructions covering the culture and 

 the handling of the cactus as set forth in 

 this book, which have been prepared un- 

 der the general direction of Mr. Burbank, 

 who is the creator and only recognized 

 authority on the Burbank Spineless Cac- 

 tus. Cactus is not like any other plant, 

 therefore it cannot be handled like the 

 average plant or as the judgment might 

 dictate. The care and culture of cactus, 

 while very different from the ordinary 

 plants, yet is so simple that one following 

 directions should have little difficulty in 

 obtaining satisfactory results. 



"That the millions of acres of desert land 

 overgrown with cactus may be made a source 

 of large revenue, seems almost incredible, but 

 stranger things have happened. Unless Burbank 

 be badly mistaken, the spineless cactus is destin- 

 ed to become one of the most useful of plants, 

 furnishing abundance of food for man and beast 

 in regions which have been, regarded as too 

 sterile and desolate for any form of stock raising 

 or farming. And the profitable conversion of 

 the common form of the plant into alcohol seems 

 even better assured." "The Sacramento (Cal.) 

 Bee." 



"The production of these new spineless fruit- 

 ing cacti is, in my opinion, as important to the 



world as the discovery of a new continent." 

 Judge S. F. L., San Jose, Cal. 



RESTORING THE LAND 

 There is every prospect that before the life's 

 work of Luther Burbank has ended he will have 

 seen thousands of square miles of desert lands 

 of the world trained to a profitable condition of 

 fertility through the medium of his spineless 

 cactus. The Britsh government is considering 

 the feasibility of introducing Mr. Burbank's 

 hybrid plant in the Sahara desert, with a view of 

 eventually forcing the most unprolific district in 

 the world to support life. "Register-Leader," 

 Des Moines, Iowa. 



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