LUTHER BURBANK 



may be harvested by machinery so that the cost of 

 handlhig is cut to the minimum. 



Mr. Burbank took the peas which he had 

 selected for form, size, color, taste, content, and 

 productiveness; then picked them over and, out 

 of tens of thousands, got perhaps one or two 

 hundred peas which he planted separately. These, 

 then, he harvested by separately counting the 

 pods and counting the peas, until he had finally 

 combined in his selection not only the best of 

 the lot but those which ripened at the same time — 

 practically on the same day. Today those Burbank 

 Empson peas form the chief industry of a large 

 community. 



There are countless other requirements which 

 can be equally well met — countless little econ- 

 omies which can be taught to the plants — little, 

 as applied to any specific plant, but tremendous 

 in the aggregate. 



There is, for instance, Mr. Burbank's new 

 canning cherry which, when picked, leaves its 

 stone on the tree. It would seem a small thing to 

 one eating the cherries as he picks them off the 

 tree. Yet, think of the saving, as carload after 

 carload of these are brought to the cannery — the 

 saving at a time when minutes count, when help 

 is short, generally, and when the fruit, because 

 of heat, is in danger of spoiling — under these 



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