HOW MAY I DO IT TOO;—BREEDING 
sizes. Some of these are perhaps fifty by a 
hundred feet, some four hundred by twenty 
feet; others, enclosed in frame borders, are from 
six to ten feet square. Wire screens are pre- 
pared to be adjusted to these smaller beds in 
order to keep out the birds. Millions upon 
millions of seeds are sown in these plots of 
ground every season, and, from the plants that 
grow, rigid selection is constantly going on. 
Workmen are always to be seen about the 
place, quiet, clear-eyed, intelligent men, trained 
men, whose hearts are in the work. Every 
morning they take their orders from Mr. Bur- 
bank for the day, and carry them out quietly 
but enthusiastically. No man ever had more 
loyal aids; they are not only attentive to their 
work, but they are devotedly attached to the 
quiet man who goes in and out among them 
all so gently, but who, if occasion demands, can 
give a command no workman would dare 
ignore, or deal out a denunciation of a misde- 
meanor exceeding bitter to the taste. It is 
rare, though, that he ever gives rein to his 
words when satire is in the saddle, but when 
he does, the pace is swift and the rider holds a 
whip of scorpions. 
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