SOME THINGS APPLIED SCIENCE HAS DONE 37 
FOR THE FARMER 
oratory, and then in the open fields, by discovering the 
laws governing those subtle but all-powerful principles and 
forces which guide the life and development of the tiny 
grain plant, so as to be able to direct its energies and 
transfer them, if need be, into other elements, or 
combine them so that a better and richer reward 
comes to the faithful husbandman, we must, I think, 
not only gaze in wonder but feel a debt of gratitude 
to those patient men who made this possible; thereby 
doubling the food supply obtainable for the use of man and 
beast out of God’s rich earth. 
