THE LUTHER BURBANK SOCIETY 



the experiences of a man who has tried more than 

 one hundred thousand separate experiments and 

 produced widely divergent successes by the hxm- 

 dred — to simmer down such experiments and put 

 the results on paper for the man, who, as yet, is 

 hardly aware that such a line of experimentation 

 exists. 



It was the difficulty of the task of presentation 

 which held back Luther Burbank's lifework from 

 the world these past twenty years; not any lack of 

 interest on the part of the world to know, nor any 

 lack of willingness on the part of Luther Biirbank 

 to tell. 



The best evidence of Luther Burbank's early 

 determination to make the results of his labors 

 available to the world lies in the fact that from 

 the very outset he kept careful, painstaking rec- 

 ords of everything that he did. No matter if 

 poverty pinched him, if neighbors criticized him; 

 no matter if series after series of experiments 

 failed him, as experiments often do; and no matter 

 how tired he was at the end of his long workday, 

 he stopped, before retiring, long enough to jot 

 down the record of his doings from sunrise to 

 sunset. 



Unique in their simplicity, and characteristic in 

 many ways of their author, these records were filed 

 away as book after book was filled, against the 



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