THESE ANIMALS WERE GROWN IN TEXAS 
and were exhibited at tlie Fat Stock Show at Chicago, in 1902, to show the wonderful improvement 
made by skillful breeding in tlie cattle of Texas. These animals are thoroughbred which means that 
they have developed in them a gland system which converts their food into delicious, tender beef that 
sells at sight at fabulous prices. 
It is just the same with the thoroughbred strawberry plant. They have a gland system developed in 
them that converts their foods in to Big, Red Berries that sell at the same fabulous prices and the more 
you manure and cultivate, the more and bigger berries you get instead of the useless runners and foliage 
of the scrub plant. These give you cash, pleasure, reputation and a high standing in the community in 
which you live. 
De Motte, one of the mcst popular scientific 
lecturers in one of his addresses used these 
words; "The constant execution of a definite 
function gradually eflfects a structural modifi- 
cation." Now, if we put this magnificent sen- 
tence in plainer words we shall say that pro- 
perly directed exercise with a definite object in 
view will develop and make prominent any 
part of the body of plant or animal and make 
it periTianent so it would be transmitted to off- 
spring. The early horticultural writers taught 
us that there was no change in plant organism 
when propagated by buds and runners but they 
merely accepted it as a theory without inves- 
tigation and nurserymen were forced to en- 
courage this false teaching because people per- 
sisted in buying of those who could furnish 
the largest trees and plants for the smallest 
possible sum. 
It costs big money to maintain a model or- 
chard and bed of ideal perfect plants from 
which to propagate. New selections must 
continuously be made and while with the ber- 
ry it can be renewed every year and good ac- 
cumulations be rapidly made, yet with the or- 
chard, it requires many years to effect a single 
change so they were forced to teach the false 
doctrine of stability of buds in plants. 
This subject was brought to the attention of 
the American Association of Nurserymen 
which assembled in Detroit, Mich., last August, 
by that most eminent horticultural investiga- 
tor, Prof. L. H. Bailey, who pointed out the 
necessity of model orchards and ideal berry 
plants from which to propagate and showed 
how rapidly our trees and plants were degen- 
erating under the present system of using 
nursery row scions and hit or miss plant mul- 
tiplying. In the discussion the nurserymen all 
conceded the correctness of Prof. Bailey's 
claims, but argued that the people would not 
pay a price that would justify the additional 
expense until they were sufficiently educated 
to comprehend the difference; that they were 
forced to adopt methods which would enable 
them to grow the big plants and trees for the 
least money until people would pay for qual- 
ity. The people wanted large, smooth tree* 
9 
