BURBANK'S 1919 NEW CREATIONS IN SEEDS 
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Last year I bought ten heads of your wonderful wheat. I planted it in rows six 
inches apart in a plot nine feet by fifteen feet. I have now cut it down and saved 
the wheat, which has given me almost eight pounds. I was very proud of it for it 
was my first experience and I felt I would like you to know what an amateur 
can do.— E. J. M., Mountain View, Cal., July 22, 1918. 
Of the value of your many wonderful contributions to humanity I presume there 
is at this moment no accurate measure. However, there is a general consensus of 
opinion which ascribes to you a place of peculiar pre-eminence not alone of the 
men of today but of the entire century. There is one group of men, moreover, for 
whom I am privileged to speak, who consider your production of a new and more 
valuable variety of wheat as an achievement in the science of agriculture and 
almost beyond measure of value to the human race. This particular group is the 
National Association of Bakers. We are just passing out of the most acute period 
of shortage this generation has ever known. Probably more than any one man in 
the world, you have done most to prevent a recurrence of such a crisis. I am 
speaking with the voice of the leaders of an industry which embraces more than 
25,000 people in the United States when I say it is their earnest desire to have 
an opportunity to show to you their respect and to profit by your words and the 
inspiration of your presence. — T. T. F., National Association of Master Bakers, 
Columbus, Ohio, July 27, 1918. 
Hudson, Ohio, Jan. 7, 1919. Last year you sent me at Borneo a package of the 
"Burbank" Tomato seed, which was planted at the same time as "Earliana" and 
"Chalk's Jewel." All were given the same treatment, transplanted twice, with the 
following results: The "Burbank" came into bearing three weeks before the 
"Earliana" and four weeks before the "Jewel." I had noticed in your note on the 
"Burbank" Tomato that it fruited some four weeks before other varieties on the 
Pacific Coast, but had no idea that in the latitude of Michigan there could be any 
such variation. D. F. N. W. 
JOHN BURROUGHS ENJOYS THE BURBANK PBODUCTIONS 
