| Show STUDENT LITE pan with the common sweet orange of Florida Another new fruit call- “tangelo” has resulted from crossing the tangerine orange with the pormelo or grape flint ed Cosmopolitan varieties of fruit are no longer mainly sought after llis aim A hy the horticulturist rather to produce mans kinds each specially adapted to Mime particular valley or plain Plant breeding is coming to he pist as nnpeitait m agriculture as animal breeding Nature gave us the wild rose: man grafted upon it his own purposes and aims and there resulted the American leant y rose People are still fixing who remember when the tomato was little seed' and hardly tit to eat : today our annual tomato crop is xxorth millions As now known the tomato may he said to he a product of the last lift' The many tine vegetables xears that today minister to our health and happiness probably were unknown one hundred years ago Floriculture has indefinitely modified the form and colors of flowers experiment stations are producing new varieties of wheat from time Our native wild plum to time through domestication and amelioration has produced more than two varieties hundred horticultural of grapes Main of our finest types fox the from hae been developed grape which was found wild in the woods The difference between a emir crab apple and a large pippin is a difference due to human purpose and patience 1 Pa fo centuries the energio of and iments man-kin- d have been wasted in useless wars merrhave onlx par- exhausting in the pas it tially realized the impurtauo of ag- riculture: individuals attracted lv the pageantry and glamour m pun-tic- s and money getting "nave chased the phantoms of power and speculation apparentlv wholly oblivious to the great truth that the soil is the ultimate source of all wealth Simple truths which might have been discovered through observation were nfinds spent overlocked: first-clatheir energies in criticising old theories r in cnnstru:ting new oaves keen live e v ho did euitixate the soil were looked down upon bv ss tile-parasiti- and upper-classe- s c xvere styled the mud sills of society hit this state of affairs is rapidly passing away Scientific discovery directed maids mind to the studv of natural law : increasing population emphasized the necessity of making two blades of grass grow where one grew before : patient experimentation has taken the place of dogI matic assertion : improved means of transportation and communication are bringing together the remotest ends of the earth cultivators in any part of the earth may now profit by the experience and discoveries of agriculturists in every other part Each succeeding year larger numbers of young men devote their lives to scientific agriculture Government both state and national is each decade spending increasing sums in maintaining experiment : |
