these districts and provided food for thousands who 

 might otherwise have perished. 



Red Bluff, CaL, News. 



Farmer's Debt to Burbank — Experimenting with 

 Teosinte Grass, the Great Naturalist Produced a 

 Perfect Fodder Plant. 



Beginning in IgOS^ Luther Burbank set about to 

 experiment with teosinte grass in the effort to estab- 

 lish proof of its origin. After 18 years of selecting 

 seedsj he carried teosinte through successive stages 

 of development and produced perfect ears of corn. 



Nor is this all of the story. Incidentally^ Mr. 

 Burbank created a productive fodder plant. Until 

 now all teosinte had to be raised in southern Florida 

 or some other tropical climate. Through scientific 

 breedings Mr. Burbank developed varieties of this 

 grass which may be produced profitably as much as 

 1^000 miles farther north and south of its original 

 home. In the northern States it is now possible to 

 produce fifty times as much fodder as the commonly 

 cultivated teosinte of the Souths and fifty times the 

 amount of grain. j^^ j^^j^f^ Democrat, 



South African Visits Burbank 



W, G. Wimshaw^ fruit grower of South Africa^ was 

 a visitor at the home of Luther Burbank. Wimshaw 

 owns a large part of the Cecil Rhodes farm near 

 Capetown^ and discussed the latest developments in 

 fruit growing. 



Wimshaw stated that a number of Burbank's crea- 

 tions in fruit had developed well in South Africa. 



Santa Rosa Republican, 



Fruit from Cacti 



The newest achievement of Burbank is the produc- 

 tion of cacti that bear fruits beautiful to the eye and 

 with flavors resembling those of peaches, muskmelons^ 

 pineapples^ etc.^ yet sufficiently unlike to render them 

 appetizing novelties. 



Philadelphia Ledger, 



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