COMPOUND ENGINES AND STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 
Until within the past few years every steam engine wasted a; large part of the power developed in the 
boner The engineer said no engine would ever be built , which could use the same steam twice but 
thev are doins it now. So too, the strawberry plant having in ,ts body crude machmery wasted the 
"stLm" anrnressure of the "boiler" (manure and tillage). It is not so now. New "machmery 
hfs b?en detloped in the plant which turns all waste into "Big, Red Berries." Read carefully, slowly, 
think hard, study each line and you will know the why, whicli. how and when about it. 
The engine of a great factory refused to 
work. Heat the boilers as hot as they could, 
the engine would barely turn the machinery. 
The engineer worked hard for days to find the 
cause while the impatient army of employes 
lost their time and wages and the owners their 
dividends until finally it was decided to send 
for an expert. Within two minutes after his 
arrival he discovered a valve out of order and 
quickly adjusted it and directed the steam to 
be turned on and instantly great power was de- 
veloped and the hundreds of employes rushed 
to their places and the work began in earnest 
and the delighted manager called for the ex- 
pert's bill who named fifty dollars as his 
charge to which the manager promptly de- 
murred, saying he was not authorized by his 
company to pay anybody fifty dollars for two 
minutes' vork and directed him to make out a 
bil' for the consideration of the board of di- 
r .Lors. The following was the bill rendered: 
To fixing engine $ -25 
To knowing how to fix it 4975 
Total $50.00 
The manager at once ordered the bill paid 
declaring twenty-five cents was very low for 
fixing the engine and $49-75 was a fair com- 
pensation for knowing how since it had re- 
quired many years of hard study to become an 
expert. 
The strawberry plant is an engine and ma- 
chine for manufacturing berries and when its 
parts get out of order it cannot use the power 
generated by the boiler (manure and tillage) 
and so the products must be small and of in- 
ferior quality until the valves are readjusted, 
when great power will be developed and util- 
ized as it is in the factory mentioned. 
This book is written to explain how to ad- 
just the "valves" and how to fire the "boiler" 
so the products may pay the workmen and 
declare dividends; also to tell you where you 
can get the perfect machines (plants) to start 
your "factory." 
You must know something of the physiolo- 
gy of the plants and the cause which produces 
results and therefore you must read this book 
page by page, think hard and re-read until 
you catch the full meaning. 
PLANT LIFE. 
We do not know what life is any more than 
we know what electricity is. We know that 
life exists in a substance called protoplasm 
and is never found in anything else. It is con- 
clusively proven by scientists that the proto- 
plasm in the plant is identical with that in the 
animal. It is also shown that the body of 
plant or animal is nothing more than a ma- 
chine for making protoplasm and when the 
machine gets out of order so that the proto- 
plasm is not suited to sustaining life, we say 
we are sick and the doctors administer medi- 
cines known to have a stimulating effect on 
the diseased organs and if the vital parts be- 
come involved so protoplasm_ seriously 
changes, life moves out and this is what we 
call death. 
The causes which lead to sickness and death 
in plants and animals are not materially differ- 
ent. The bodies of plants and of animlas are 
composed of the same chemcial elements. 
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