Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-01-28 | Page 1 | Fund for Burbank

FUND FOR BURBANK Will Devote Entire Attention Atten-tion to Experimenting With Plants. , NEW YORK, Jan. 28. It has been announced an-nounced that the sum of $100,000 allotted by the trustees of the Carnegie Institute to Luther Burbank, the California agriculturist, agri-culturist, will be paid to him in annual Installments of J10.0OO. This sum will enable en-able Burbank to devote his entire attention atten-tion for that period to experiments with new grasses and vegetables and it is expected ex-pected that he will relinquish temporarily temporari-ly his business Interests. Many important discoveries have been made by the Caiifornian at his home in Santa Rosa during the past twenty-five years. He has wuked along the lino of seeking Imperfect pVoducts In fruits, flowers, flow-ers, etc., in order to make them of full value. He claims there is "no weed which will not sooner or later respond liberally to good cultivation and persistent selection."