THESE ANIMALS WERE GROWN IN TEXAS 
and exhibited at the Fat Stock Show in Chicago, in 1902, to show by comparison the wonderful improve 
ment by skillful breeding in the cattle of Texas. These animals were merely multiplied in their own 
way, just as the average nurseryman propagates strawberry plants. They are "Natural Fruit" with a 
gland system which converts their food into skin, gristle, bone and a flesh so tough it can only be sold 
in cans after a long cooking under a high pressure of steam. They are hard to sell even at the 
lowest price. No amount of feeding and care can make them produce the quality of beef found in the 
thoroughbred animal. The more you feed the more gristle, bone and skin you get without a corres- 
ponding increase in the quality of flesh. You cannot take a common scrub plant propagated at will 
and without a well developed fruit organism and grow Big, Red Berries. It cannot be done. Its organ- 
ism is such that the more you manure and cultivate it, the more runners and leaves you get without a 
corresponding increase in fruit. 
acids, and many other things and see how 
quick plants will show the effects. 
If there is no such thing as changing the 
organism of plants, why do we have plant 
breeding classes in our Agricultural Colleges? 
Of course, it is a recent thing, but, bless you, 
twenty years ago not one farmer in a thousand 
knew plants were male and female or scarce 
anything about their physiological parts. They 
were granddaddy blind and followed in the 
footsteps of their ancestry and indeed felt the 
absolute necessity of the bag-stone on the 
farm. This is an age of specialists and mves- 
tigation and the man who does not fall m and 
know the cause which produces results must 
ever remain a day laborer using the tool put 
in his hands by others. 
BUD VARIATION. 
Bud variation is any change in the glands of 
the plant which shall cause it to produce a dif- 
ferent fruit. These variations are constantly 
going on in all trees and plants propagated by 
buds, cuttings and runners and lay the founda- 
tions for improving them. 
A young man of thirty has jet black hair 
and smooth face. At sixty his hair is white 
and face wrinkled. The glands of the scalp 
which secreted the black coloring matter have 
wasted away and changes are wrought in the 
facial glands causing the wrinkles. This is 
similar to the changes in plants, but since the 
plant is constantly renewing itself by new crea- 
tions through its buds which receive the pa- 
rental vascular system, we can, by a system of 
selection, accumulate the characteristics we 
want and discard those we do not want and 
thus produce the ideal plant. 
The rapidity of these changes is governed 
by the conditions under which the plant grows. 
A plant growing under unfavorable environ- 
ments and neglect will change for the worse 
and become weak while one grown under per- 
fect conditions will naturally grow strong and 
make changes for the better. Prof. John B. 
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