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Show The Seed Is Nature's Priceless Gem. In nature's great treasure-house the seed Is iho one priceless gem. Compared to It. the great deposits of coal, the mines of silver and gold, and of diamonds and precious stones are as nothing. Man counts his wealth In dollars and cents. In mining and railroad shares, and In houses and lands: while his primal necessities neces-sities are limited to food and clothing. AVIthout these all other tokens of affluence af-fluence are void. These Indeed nre the sources of true wealth, and the grass of the field supplies them all directly or Indirectly. Indi-rectly. The cereal grains wheat, rye. oats, barley, rice and Indian corn which are the seeds of true grasses, are convertible ellrectly Into food. The succulent leaves and culm of the wild grasses furnish sustenance sus-tenance lo millions of entile, sheep and goals, and are transformed by them Into flesh, milk, wool and hides, thus Inellrect-ly Inellrect-ly providing meat and clothing. They also protect the soil from flood and drought and landslide. Sending their fibrous roots down among the shifting sands of tho seashore, they bind the unstable particles Into a mass so dense as lo check the erosion ero-sion of the waves. Thus grass, the synonym syno-nym of frailty, Is able to arise its tiny green scepter against the destructive liower of the elements. Frank French. In Outing. |