Show T THE HE WIZARD OF SANTA ROSA THE Tl TELEGRAM is in n receipt of a P paper a P er from t ih the Luther Burbank Burbank- society of Santa Rosa Cal which tells of some of Mr 1 achieve achieve- chiev 1 and announcing that Mr 11 Burbank Burbank's r s book took 4 if sN f telling of some ome things that he be has done and nd ho how I j anyone nyO c. c ca can work work on the same same lines is' is about to be l. l Issue issued d i. i r The society is made a up P of some of the foremost J p people eo le of a dozen states and there is is s no thought of M a i- i iani any ani any e 5 P profit behind the wor work o. o the s sac society lc t y i a r To read th this s single page Pg a e is more fascinating g I r. r r. r than were were ever ever the thc c. c Arabian Nights ts to an an ea eager cager g er ert rb t- t I v When When lieu Mr l Barb Burbank was a b o oy just out bout ou of a Massachusetts school he thought ou out oui how f to o improve im im- r. r prove sweet corn and g get et it to market two weeks l i 1 t in iIi 1 advance of his neighbors b As s 1 a r result es ul the he was vas 1 t b be e t to b s a e i 1 his corn COlon at 60 GO cents p per er r dozen w whereas his Nis is neighbors were glad to get 10 cents cents per dozen r r Th The c a Burbank p pot potato to w whit which ich i he lie c created thirty five five 5 wears years c ago a g o has bas according g to to A z bullets bulletin i i issued s sd d by h b the e United S States at s de department p C nt of f a agriculture g cult l 1 1 a adds 17 a year ear to the potato p c crop 1 op of this country and i it t is U b better c l ln known now wn n ab abroad bl r gad ad than th n it at r Home This mesas means an I. I increased sed pr profit o fit from the potato crop cropin in this count country in iri the thirty five Q years first he produced it of Q r A walnut tree under u usual ual c conditions tons i s In ln thirty hir r. r fv i t cars gro grows grows' I s' s tw tu nt feet high r nd has a cir circumference cir cn c of ci eighteen inches In liI seventeen sc years cars Burbank u b k huR has liaa P produced r o d uc e d a a. s walnut t t tree treo roc e eighty 1 g 1 It ty y if fc feet t Ili high g 11 and two seventy s inches in circumference The The estimate is that at of a a. cost of 2 3 P Pantis per er tree treo for p planting antis g this now note tree will P produce in twelve years cars lumber worth per acre lie IIo has bas reduced the time tithe for P producing a cro crop P of chestnuts from fifteen years carR to six six months lie JIe has increased the thc prune prime crop of California to pounds thus enabling ing the state to sell to the outside world pounds R herc where 35 1 were formerly bought He has wrought the same miracles on tomatoes asparagus asparagus squash cherries blackberries and nearly y a all ll ve vegetables g fruit t and find c cerea cereals c rca s. s Ii He e has ha s In Invented invented in in- vented a great white whito blackberry and a blackberry One florist on Long Island N. N I Y reports that fo following in g 1 Mr fl Burbank s advice J he h has aS rais raised eft more tha than worth of plants and flowers ers llis crimson winter rhubarb yields ields 1000 per 11 acre But th the greatest of or all Mr lIr rr Burban Burbanks Burbank's s 's triumphs s is liis s cactus II He c h has a s on all a s si single n n le acre of l land and r d at nt his leis home in Santa Rosa R sa Cal 2056 tons of I I cactus acius and the cactus is but 3 years old What That he helas I Ih h las zas s made mado of the vicious Vi ious thorny Y cactus that g grows s growson rows on n the thc de deserts all over all o ocr ez th the southwest south IS is thus des described de de- s scribed rib d He Hc made the common cactus produce a rich juicy fruit and then by making it a arest great rest forage ge crop after the fruit is n nHe picked irked He so 50 transformed the cactus eaglets that it grows hornless ss and covers c itself Ir with beautiful high highly Y glared colored pear shaped fruit ns as juicy as a ripe watermelon with a flavor between that and ti the e B pear pear grows grows them on ou on their native des ert Corn produces about one Ong ton tali and a half halt of food alfalfa as high as five tons the Burbank has las produced two thousand tons per acre or in money mone it t can P produce of denatured alcohol 1 1200 00 P per er acre as Is against 25 from an acre of corn Th There re are acres this desert land in inthe inthe the he south southwest cst that will produce this cactus It grows rows in sand and draws dratva its substance from the air lir lr When Viell these 2 a ac F res res are arc P pr producing b g 2000 fons ons of fodder and fr fruit it to the acre the P price tiro of reef beef it is believed will be much lowered lovered Wb n France beyond d Algeria gets the Sahara Ranted planted to cactus all Europe P a shot should d' d be able abe to haye lave cheap beef But the great treat thing after all about the work of f Mr r. Burbank is t that at in thirty five years Nc Jc c has hasin hasa in n a his n noiseless way so exalted the science of agI agriculture agri agri- i culture allure that it stands today the most sublime sd- sd ace ence in the thc sl world orld for it is the science which P produces produces pro pro- roP ro- ro duces laces what mankind lives fives upon and Mr r. r Burbanks Burbank's Bur Bur- yanks banks work has made clear that the possibilities of f. f what may luay b be wrought in that field are away bey beyond be be- y yond nd the h CO l io of ot f men e ia in n. n J their pre present e st tote state te It makes clear that this this' old w world ar 1 d will vin raise slag sufficient food for all men and a animas animals i ls when plan nan learns how to cultivate the soil and treat the plants plants' that a grow grow out of the soil Back Baek to t thc the he soil oil more and nd more every day and the fact grows rows more and more wore clear that one such man as as' as Burbank is worth more to a countr country than a mighty eighty army of common men |