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road-side pest. Now we cultivate and 

 "improve" him. You will find little 

 in Nature more marvelous than the 

 great flaming disc as the fruit of its 

 labors approaches maturity. The 

 colors and the beautiful detail of the 

 huge blossom should make mankind 

 duly humble in its presence. The work- 

 manship is perfect. Here is a case 

 where we have discovered values to be 

 utilized in our own affairs. The mod- 

 ern farmer has found the sunflower a 

 great silage crop, and that the seed 

 produced in such abundance puts fat 

 on animals to which it may be fed, so 

 it is no longer just a weed. 



The more you study these things the 

 more you will see that the plants we 

 figure we have the least use for are the 

 very ones Nature tries most persis- 

 tently to perpetuate by giving them 

 special resisting powers. I have spent 

 many odd hours during which I forgot 

 entirely the printing office, the rapac- 

 ity of profiteers and tax gatherers, 



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