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Copyright, 1911

Oscar E. Binner Co.

Luther Burbank’s Publishers

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Chicago, Ill.

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LUTHER BURBANK

His Great Work and Its Boundless Value \

“T have heard of Burbank, just as I have heard of Edison—but what has he done
_ that is of practical and lasting value?” asked a man with whom I was discussing
Luther Burbank’s work.

Out of the results of forty years of daily achievement, it is hard to pick a single
illustration that will answer the question: ‘What has he done?”

But take for example the common potato. Thirty-five years ago potatoes were
round, red-skinned and small.

The potatoes you have today are long, white-skinned and large.

You would have difficulty now in finding specimens of those little round, red-
skinned potatoes of olden days, for the Burbank potato has become practically
universal—it no longer pays to raise the other kind.

Luther Burbank did three things to the potato:
He increased its size.

He increased the number that grow in a hill.

And, third, he improved the quality and flavor.

The United States Department of Agriculture at Washington, in one of its bulle- « |
tins, has said that the Burbank potato is adding seventeen million dollars a year to iM
the agricultural output of the country. il

but are, in fact, better known abroad than at home, it is easy to compute that the
Burbank potato in the thirty-five years since its discovery, has added to farm incomes =
a grand total in the neighborhood of six hundred million dollars.

In other words, Luther Burbank, with this one single plant improvement, has
given the farmers of the world an added income equal to the whole estimated earn-
ings of the Standard Oil Company since its inception.

And my friend, who had eaten Burbank potatoes all of his life and who had ©
never seen, tasted or even heard of any other potato, asked me what this man had ©
done that was practical!

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The Walnut tree, as nature planned it, is slow to grow.

In thirty-five years it usually reaches a height of twenty feet and a circumfer-
ence of eighteen inches.

Burbank has produced a walnut tree—equal, if not superior in the quality of the
lumber—which, in only seventeen years, has attained a height of eighty feet (as
against twenty feet in twice that long) and a circumference of seventy-two inches
(as against eighteen inches in twice that long).

At the cost of $2. per tree for planting, this new walnut can yield in twelve years
a lumber value of three thousand dollars per acre.

Or, to put it another way: in these days when forest conservation is an acute
issue, Luther Burbank has given us a short-cut to reforestration—has enabled us to
make good a lumber shortage, due to our own wanton recklessness—and to do all of
this, not a generation from now, but in the mere span of a dozen years.

Yet I am asked: “What has he done that is practical?”

There are three billion acres of desert in the world.

Barren, arid desert on which the highest form of vegetable life is the worthless,
spiny cactus.

It took the imagination of a Burbank to conceive a way to transform these three
billion acres into productivity.

He did it not by finding new plants which would thrive on desert soil and under
desert conditions.

He did it by making the common cactus which already grows there produce a
rich, juicy fruit—and then by making the cactus thornless, he added a great forage
crop (live stock food) after the fruit is picked.

He so transformed the cactus that it grows thornless und covers itself with beauti-
ful, highly colored, pear-shaped fruit—as juicy as a ripe watermelon, with a flavor
between that and the Bartlett pear—grows them on its native desert.

Yon Under favorable conditions, corn produces on the basis of about one ton and a
half of food per acre.

Alfalfa, that wonder crop, itself, produces as high as five tons of food per
acre.

The Burbank cactus has shown that it will produce as high as two hundred
tons of food per acre—or, in money, it can produce $1200. worth of Denatured Alco-_-
hol per acre as against $35. from an acre of Indian corn.

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wealth equal to that of Standard Oil, what estimate can be made of the value of this
new Burbank food cactus, with three billion acres of unproductive land to plant

it to?
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In the size of type in which this article is set, it would take more than ninety-
eight pages merely to catalogue the plant experiments and improvements which
Luther Burbank has made in the past forty years.

Not to describe them—but merely to give their names in one-line headings.

I could mention the chestnut seedling, bearing a crop of nuts after six months
growth from seed—as against ten to fifteen years of an ordinary tree.

Or the evolution of the prune resulting in increasing the crop of one State from
sixty-five to two hundred million pounds, and enabling the United States to sell fifty
million pounds a year to foreign countries instead of buying thirty-five million pounds
from them.

Or the Burbank tomato, asparagus, squash, each as wonderful in its way as the
Burbank potato was thirty-five years ago.

Or the crimson winter rhubarb, called the “mortgage lifter” by its growers,
ready fully six months earlier than any other rhubarb, and of a flavor and texture
that makes it yield a thousand dollars an acre the first year after planting—with an
always eager market.

Or the Burbank cherry, or the Burbank white blackberry, or the Burbank cob-
less corn, or the Burbank thornless blackberry, or the Burbank forage grasses,
hays, peas, beans, oats, rye, all of which have just as practical a money-meaning as
the Burbank potato or the Burbank cactus have.

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“And my ideas of Burbank,” said my friend, “have always been associated with
such things as his Shasta Daisy—his novelties—beautiful, interesting, and valuable,
but from a money standpoint, representing nothing practical.”

Compared with the Burbank potato, the beautiful Burbank Rose seems almost a
frivolity.

Yet I have the word of one florist on Long Island, New York, who says that he
has sold from the new varieties which he has produced according to Burbank’s
advice on hybridizing, over one hundred thousand dollars worth of plants and flowers.
(N. Y. Sun, Sept. 17, 1911.)

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How has Burbank accomplished such results?

Partly through genius—and love for his work that has lengthened his labor
period to sixteen hours a day.

I cannot go here into a description of his methods of working—for the same
reason that I cannot here catalogue all of the results that he has produced.

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For Burbank is not a man of one method—his methods have been as many, al-
most, as his results.

But a single example may give an idea:
Grafting one tree to another to produce a new variety of fruit, is old.

The disadvantage being, however, that in spite of pains and care to have all condi-
tions alike, the results of different graftings are never alike.

The theory is, in grafting, that every possible combination of the two parents will
eventually appear.

Where others had grafted one or two plants, Burbank works with ten thousand
—twenty thousand plants.

From the results of the twenty thousand he selects perhaps five or six and
from five or six, in ten years or twenty years, he brings forth another Burbank prod-
uct.

And the public, not knowing the process or the patience or the wonderful imagi-
nation of the man, says “wonderful”—‘a wizard.”

If that public could see Luther Burbank burning up ten thousand discarded
plants—if it could see his ten thousand-dollar wood-pile that represented the failures
necessary to produce success, it would understand more of his method.

Mr. Burbank took a fancy to increasing the size of a certain flower.

He made it bigger and bigger and bigger till finally its stem could not support it
—and then he brought it down to a size which the stem would hold.

This is a bald statement of fact, though it sounds like a miracle.

Yet, if you knew the work involved, the skill, the time, the never-ending patience
—it would seem no more a miracle than the results of the grafting process described
above.

And so on, through all of his work, will be found the same brilliant imagination,
the same scientific thoroughness, the same years of experiment, the same Burbank
patience—but a different method—a different way of accomplishing results.

In every department of farming, fruit growing, flower raising and forestry,
there are Burbank discoveries the product of his genius and patience, which will be of
the same provable, practical benefit that the Burbank potato, in its thirty-five years SN

of existence, has shown itself to be. IN

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Most of them have never been answered.
At his home he has received as high as six thousand visitors in a single season,

his grounds being overrun with crowds from daylight to ten o’clock at night, till
finally he was forced to exclude worthy and unworthy alike.

For Luther Burbank has not been in business—his farm has been an experiment
farm—no more a nursery than Edison’s laboratory has been a factory.

Only, unlike Edison, Burbank has been so engrossed in his experiments that so
long as the money has come in to continue them, he has never cared to take up the
practical matter of duplicating them for the market.

That is why my friend, and others who have heard of Burbank, have been led to
wonder what he has done that is practical. :

And the result is that, because he has not stopped to realize the profits, he has
been enabled to do a work infinitely more practical, infinitely more far-reaching.

It was Elbert Hubbard who said “the finest product of the life and work of
Luther Burbank is Luther Burbank himself.”

Some day I hope to be able to forget the achievements of Luther Burbank and
write the simple story of his life.

But it is the practical side of his work that claims attention now.

The value of farm lands has increased from $15.57 per acre to $32.49 per acre—
not in the last generation—but in the last ten years.

The facts of the present census show it—an actual doubling of values between
1900 and 1910.

In other words, the average farm which, ten years ago, would have cost you
$10,000.00 today will require an investment of $20,000.00.

In some way or other the interest on this added $10,000.00 of cost must be
paid.

So far, it has been paid by the public in higher prices for food—thus, the increased
cost of living. :

But the cost of living cannot continue to increase indefinitely—it cannot perma-
nently stay even at its present high level.

If it goes up, the wage earner is headed toward bankruptcy. If it goes down,
with farm values as they now are, the farmer is headed toward bankruptcy.

The solution lies in intelligent farming—in these discoveries of Luther Burbank

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increases production that the farmer can hold and increase his profits at prices which
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Here is Luther Burbank—his work and methods practically a secret.
Here is a world impatiently waiting to be informed.
Here is the work of forty years ready for widespread dissemination.

And here is the acute issue of the increased cost of living and the increased
capital necessary to buy a farm.

How shall these Burbank discoveries be put into actual money-making use?

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The Carnegie Institution at Washington, recognizing the universal value of
Luther Burbank’s records, made an appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars
in 1905 for the purpose of compiling them for scientific purposes exclusively.

But the scientific part of Mr. Burbank’s work, important and interesting as it is,
is not what the farmer needs.

What the farmer needs is the practical results—and definite instructions on how
to apply them.

It is the difference between mathematics and accounting—between the patent
office drawings of an invention and working blue-prints for manufacturing—be-
tween theory and practice.

What the Carnegie Institution wanted would have delayed the more practical
achievement of getting farmers everywhere using the Burbank methods.

So Luther Burbank independent of the Carnegie Institution decided to tabulate,
analyze and classify and explain the copious notes which he has always taken of all
his experiments in the forty years of his work.

To do this, not in a way to interest the scientists, for the Shasta Daisy is of
as much interest to the scientists as the Burbank potato—but to do it in a way that
would make the Burbank methods clearly understandable by any average farmer who
can read simple English.

There is already too much of the theory of farming—too little of the practice.

Only the smallest percentage of the work of the Department of Agriculture and
agricultural colleges in various states is ever put into actual operation.

At these fountain heads of farming information it is possible to learn the in-
gredients that a soil for a given purpose should possess—but there are no facilities

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native tree. Within twelve years from planting, its lumber can yield $3,000. per acre without care or outlay

save the cost of planting (not to exceed $2. per tree).

Specimen of the Royal Walnut finished by the Scholle Furniture Company at Chicago. It resem-

bles tropical mahogany, is as hard as the old-fashioned black walnut, but has a finer grain and takes a higher
finish. This wood is worth from $200. to $700. per thousand feet board measure.

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for actually examining the soils that are sent in by farmers nor are farmers told
how their soils may be analyzed or definitely improved.

There is value in this scientific work, unquestionably—but it reaches only the
small number of attending students, not the millions of farmers.

And the farm problem today is an acute problem calling for an immediate answer.

It needs not theory, but working plans—not lectures or essays or histories to
improve the mind of the farmer, but specific, detailed instructions for making an
immediate increase in the output of the farm.

And this detailed specific help is in part exactly what Luther Burbank has been

preparing during these years.
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For nearly four years I have been putting all of my time and my personal
resources into the vast work of getting these Burbank books ready for the printer.

If the work had not been so engrossing in its interest, and if I had not had the
kindly presence of Luther Burbank to help me, and if I had not had daily manifesta-
tions of that beautiful Burbank patience, it would have overwhelmed me.

For the ceaseless activities of forty years cannot be compressed into a few pages
of type—the subject has been so big that instead of simplifying itself into the ele-
ments as time went on, it has grown vaster and vaster as the work has progressed.

I have spent months with Luther Burbank, sometimes six months at a stretch—
right there on his experiment farm, entering into his daily life.

I have discussed methods for making the books with the best known agricultural
scientists and with the best known book publishers, the country over.

I have studied basketful after basketful of the letters in Mr. Burbank’s files to
see what those who had written him had wanted.

I have requested the opinions of more than a thousand of the heaviest authorities
in the agricultural and educational world, and as a result have been flooded with more
than a thousand commendations and evidences of deep, widespread interest, without
precedent in the book or any other business.

I sent men to call on a thousand farmers and others interested in land; they
wanted the books immediately, and there was not one exception.

I have put every minute of these four years into the study of this, my problem.

With the result that, not only have definite plans been matured, but the actual

work is well under way. sera
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discoveries relating to farming, fruit growing, forestry and flower raising—the impor-
ZA tant things representing the net-compressed work of forty years to fit the needs of
Gr the average farmer—meaning by “farmer” anyone who farms the earth, whether it

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For the demand for these books will not be from farmers alone, but from dwel-
lers in small towns, country gentlemen, suburbanites, gardeners, lumbermen, orchard-
ists, florists, and everyone, in fact, who raises things from the soil, either for profit or
for pleasure—about 60 per cent of all humanity.

The letters in Mr. Burbank’s files prove this—and out of so many the percentage
is reliable.

And the fact that during the four years I have been engaged in this work, I have
without advertisement of any kind received numerous orders from bankers, insurance
men, big business men, railroad men, clerks, mechanics—all ravenous to learn how
Luther Burbank could help them with their potato patches, their hedges, their flower
beds, their shade trees, their truck gardens.

Based on all this evidence, the decision was reached—a general set of five
books—general in the range of its subjects, but concrete and specific in its treatment
of them—a Burbank Library crammed full of practical, working data of the broadest
interest to the greatest number.

The thought is that in these books the soil-tiller, large and small, in every corner
of the world, numbering hundreds of millions, can find the solution to most pressing
problems and much other valuable matter beside—enough at least to become an
incentive to following up the study of other Burbank discoveries.

That the owner of a home in a small town may find what he wants to know
about the care of his house garden.

That the landlord of a country estate may be able to learn what he requires about
his flowers, his fruits, his forest trees, his lawns, his fields, his gardens.

That the city man who owns no place, may satisfy his desire to understand
Luther Burbank’s methods as a matter of general knowledge and interest in the
world’s progress.

In other words, the range of these five popular priced books is so broad that
their interest is all-embracing—yet the plant improvements they describe are so spe-
cific that none can fail to follow and profit by them.

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Yet these five books which will be required by many millions of people are but
the beginning of the dissemination of agricultural instruction by the Oscar E. Binner
Company.

Following them there must be prepared several thousand separate handbooks,
ranging in size from a tiny bulletin-pamphlet to two-to-three-hundred-page volumes,
each dealing in the fullest possible measure with some one specific subject—some for
general sale—others to be used as school-texts.

Following these, it will probably be necessary to make up a series of four or
five volume libraries, each specializing on some subject such as forestry, grains,

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Early Cherry— natural size. Brought at wholesale 75c per pound in carload lots. Sold at retail at from
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Cherry Tree bearing over two hundred varieties.

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Western Land Products Exposition
Omaha, January 18-28, 1911

Courtesy “Omaha Bee”

The traveling lectures and exhibits of the Oscar E. Binner Co.— Luther Burbank’s Publishers — will
graphically bring the actual products of Luther Burbank’s work direct to the most concerned people, furnishing
both example and incentive to improve and intensify in the treatment of the soil. They will aid materially in

selling the books which will tell the people what to do and how to do it.

Luther Burbank Sernes.

The steps in the publication and promulgation of these various works are clear
and logical.

First, the whole effort must be to disseminate the initial five-volume work as
widely as possible, not only here at home, but in all nations abroad, for Luther
Burbank’s work is one that knows neither language, nor race, nor high civilization.

Just as food is and always will be the prime requisite for human life, just so must
Luther Burbank’s work be as universal as human life itself.

Wherever these five books find their way, there will spring an immediate demand
for more of the knowledge necessary to enable soil-tillers to lift mortgages and double
incomes without investing more money.

To fill this demand within a year or so, the work of publishing the monographs
and text books will proceed.

And following these, the specialized libraries will come as a matter of natural
course.

But the first work—and the only work to be considered right now—is the pub-
lication and dissemination of the initial five books.

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I have said that these five books will be offered at a popular price.

They will be big, handsome, substantial books filled throughout with costly col-
ored printing.

Substantial because they are not merely books to be read—they are books to be
thumbed over and learned by heart.

Filled with color printing because color plays a big part in the scheme of Luther
Burbank’s experiments.

Complete, delivered, they will be sold as low as $25. for the set, on terms as low
as 50 cents a week, whenever necessary.

Think of the farmers who invest thousands of dollars in farm machinery in order
to add ten per cent to their crops.

While these books, without other investment, will enable them to increase their
crops in the same ratio that the Burbank potato increased the potato crop.

Think of the farmers who spend hundreds of dollars for pianos and organs, pho-
nographs and other musical instruments merely to while their evenings away.

While these books for $25. will enable them to solve the real problems that
embarrass them now and threaten them in the future.

In fact, farmers even now everywhere spend more than this small amount in
their search for reading matter that will help them—farm papers and other reading
matter which, for the lack of a Burbank, must limit itself to commonplaces.

Would the farmer invest $25. to make his 80 acres produce as much as 160 with
no more labor rather than pay for another 80 acres and double the labor?

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And that, in a measure applies to anyone interested in the cultivation of the soil—
from the truckgardener and his profit point of view to the country magnate with an
eye for landscape beauty, the scope of Burbank’s researches is universal.

Aside from the set of five books, the numerous monograph books, each deal-
ing with a specific subject of interest to the farmer, will range in price from 25
cents up—within everybody’s reach.

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To quote from Mr. Burbank’s own manuscript:

“New creations in plant-life will not only produce a renewed interest in agricul-
tural and horticultural matters, and in all outdoor life, but they will make it possible
to produce far greater results with the same amount of labor and capital. A life in
the open air, among plants, near to Nature’s heart, gives one health and self-respect,
as well as physical endurance and mental integrity—for the highest intellectual
advancement can be combined with the occupations of the soil.

“The forthcoming volumes are for the people, not for the scientific investigator,
and I hope to tell the facts in a plain, matter-of-fact way which will be understood
by everybody, and especially by the young, in whom I now see a greater interest in
nature studies and farm-life than ever before.

“New fruits, nuts, grains, vegetables, coffee, tea, spice—rubber, oil, paper, and
perfume plants—such as man has never yet seen—will be produced in greatly supe-
rior forms with the precision achieved by the artist, chemist or mechanic. Does
this mean—do you ask—anything for the human race?

“Yes, in the hands of the plant-breeder rests the future destiny of all mankind.”

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Editorial Department Oscar E. Binner Company—Luther Burbank’s Publishers—Santa Rosa, Cal.

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Luther Burbank Series.
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State vf Nebraska

EXECUTIVE OFFICE

Lincoln, Nebr., Apr. 27, 1911.

Mr. Oscar E. Binner,
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Desr Sir:-=

I netice that your Company is undertaking the
Publication of Luther Burbank's experiences and results in
intensified farming.

Thomas Carlyle once said, "The histery of a natin
ig tha biography cf its great men".

And it can with equal truth be said that the
histery of agriculture in this country fer the past forty
years is the biography cf Luther Burbank.

Agriculture is the basis cf civilisation and te n
man dees agriculture owe so much as it doas te Luther Burbank.

A man ef the highest order cf censtructive genius,
he has devoted his talents te the betterment of his fellow-man
unselfisnlye

And Mr. Binner, it is to be heped that through
you, as a publisher, the werld will be able te iesarn Burbank's
invaluable lessons. I sheuld prize this beok as among

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Wishing yeu the deserved success in ycur undertaking ,

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Yours truly,

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Governor.

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EXECUTIVE DEPAR FMENF
State of Saath Dakotas
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April 28, 1911.

Mr. Oscar H. Binner,

Sixth Floor American Trust Bldg.,
Chicago, Tllinois.

Mr dear Mr. Binner;+-

In response to your favor of the 25th
inst., I have to say, in brief, that the value of
the work which Luther Burbank has done for humanity
and the world is beyond estimate.

A wide dissemination throughout the
various lands of the universe of the knowledge which
he has gained through his marvelous experiments would
indeed add much to the lives of msny and it is bo be
hoped that this may be accomplished.

As long as the world is peopled, as long
as there is soil to till and flowers to bloom, so long
will the work of Burbank continue to live.

Thanking you for the courtesy of your

letter, I am, with kind personal regards,

Very truly yours,

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Cobless Corn

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Santa Rosa Rose

awarded special Gold Medal at the
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36 Seedlings of “Williams Favorite” Apple

showing the usual variations among the fruit of

the same tree.

Luther Burbank Series.
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STATE OF WASHINGTON
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
OLYMPIA

May 10, 1911.

Mr. Oscar E. Binner,
American Trust Building,
Chicago, Illinois.

Dear Sir:-

Your letter of April 25, requesting an opinion from me
concerning the publication of Luther Burbank's methods and discov-
eries, was received during my absence from the capital, and I now
hasten to reply thereto upon my return.

The value of Luther Burbark's work to humanity is beyond
estimate, and the publication of his methods and discoveries in popu=
lar form should prove an enduring blessing to mankind.

The conservation of our natural resources is en idea that
has captured the imagination and enlisted the pompethy of the people
of this country. The movement has developed so far into a program
for the preservation from monopoly and waste of timber, coal and water,
the chief sources from which are seoured for man the comforts and lux-
uries of life. Heretofore, too little heed has been cate to the con-
servation of our food pee Ee upon which civilization itself depends.
Luther Burbank has gone to the root of this peoblen in his great work
and has accomplished more of practical, immediate and lasting good
than all the zealous theorists of the land combined. He has disoov-
ered methods of making land, formerly considered desert and worthless,
produce nutritious and protetele Crops. He has demonstrated how the
soil can be made to yield in greater abundance than ever before under
less scientific cultivation. In this way he has helped to solve the
probes of providing for the ever increasing population without lorer-

ng the standard of porate and retarding the pro gece of civilization.
Once people realize that health, happiness and profit can be obtained
through the cultivation of small farms in thickly settled communities
where all the tel aaa tendencies of mankind are provided for as com-
pistesy as in the urban centers, the problem of how to get men back to

he soil will be solved, and Luther Burbank has discovered the methods
that will bring about that condition.

Trusting this will meet the purpose of your request, I am
Very truly yours,

Governor of Washington.

Yi,

age twenty-six

HOKE SMITH

J. J. HASTINGS
MARION SMITH
RONALD RANSOM

ee

LAW OFFICES
SMITH, HASTINGS & RANSOM.
707-714 PETERS BUILDING
ATLANTA, GA.

WALTER O. MARSHBURN

April 29th, 1911.
Mr. Oscar E. Binner,
American Trust Building,
Chicago, Illinois.
Dear Sir:

I learn with great pleasure that Mr. Luther Burbank has
decided to publish his methods and discoveries in popular form
so that they can be used with profit by the ordinary farmer.

I cannot express myself too strongly in Gommendation of
the great service that Mr. Burbank has already rendered. If he
is able to carry knowledge of his methods to those engaged in
agricultural pursuits so that even in part they may be generally
used, it will be a benedistion to the human race.

Upon the soil tiller we depend not only for food and the
raw material necessary for raiment, but for nearly all that goes
to build a people and a nation. Service to them is service to
every ones

Again assuring you how much I appreciate the proposed

publication, I remain,

Very respectfully yours, i

Governor of Georgia.

Page twenty-seven

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OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT.

Dear Sir: February 23rd, 1911.

I have received your letter of the 15th instant in regard
to the proposed publication of the methods and discoveries of Luther
Burbank and desire to say in reply that I believe that such a
publication as you are about to initiate would prove of immense
national benefit.

I am, dear Sir,

Faithfully yours,

Mr. Osoar BE. Binner,
American Trust Building, Cou bin ray
Chicago, Tllinois.

President.

>. SHAWKEY STATE oF WEST VIRGINIA
Se oe DEPARTMENT OF FREE SCHOOLS
CHARLESTON

E 71 Mm
Ir. Cscar E. Binner, February 18, 1911

6th Floor Americon Trust Building.
Chic:go, Ill.

ear Sir:-

I have before me your letter of rebruary 15th in regard to the
ork of Luther Burbenk. I will say that I believe no man in America has
she public ear and public confidence to a greater extent that does Luther
urbank. The story of his accomplishments would not only anneal to the
strictly saientific mind, but especially to those who work with their hands.
Therefore I believe you will be doing the country a creat service by puttin
she results of his lebors in the reach of the public.

Very truly yours,

j NRE

Page twenty-eight

W.H.UNDERWOOD,PREs. JAS.VILES,. Vice Pres E.M.MOORE,SecrRETaRY.

THE UNDERWOOD &VILES COLD STORAGE CO.
WHOLESALE FRUITS,VEGETABLES. EGGS.

GENERAL COLD STORAGE.APPLE GROWERS. _°°O°&S:
OPERATING
UNDERWOOD ORCHARD,VILES ORCHARD NEW CITR

us
THE HOT HOUSE VEGETABLE CO. MOD EERE ONO
MEDORA CATALPA PLANTATION

HUTCHINSON, KANSAS. =4%zef— Pe re

Page twenty-uine

The Wonderful Hybrid Plum at the right and its tiny parent at the left. Both natural size.

Improved Everlasting Flower.

Luther Burbank Senes.

Page thirty

Thornless Cactus and Fruit produced by Luther Burbank. Will produce 200 tons of food per acre,
or 2000 pounds of carbohydrate convertible into 3000 gallons of denatured alcohol worth about $1,200, as

against $32. per acre of corn.

Luther Burbank Series.
(el (\ecar fe. imnenieo-

Page thirty-one

Obio Horthern University

ADA, OHIO

OFFICE OF THE
PRESIDENT

Ada, Ohio, Feb. 16, 1911.

Mr. Oscar E. Binner,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Mr. Binner:

I think you can do no larger service for
the country than to print and distribute the
treasures of work and thought produced by Luther
Burbank. We are starting an Agricultural College in
aonnection with our university this spring, and be-
lieve that one of the vital questions before the
nation is the raising of better harvests and the in-
orease of food so that the best living may be with-
in reach of the poorest mane I heartily commend your
effort and wish you great success in bringing out
the publication.

Sincerely yours,

AES-GWS —

President.

age thirty-two

AITABECEDARY ANDINTERNATIONAL CODES USED
case aporesS OLIVER’ soutn send

ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO US AND NOT TO ANY INDIVIDUAL OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE.

QUIN Cun hiD PLO WORKS,

CHILLED & STEEL WALKING & RIDING PLOWS.

FACTORY, SOUTH BEND. IND..US.A. nih lcd dal Feb. - 16, 1911.

Mr. Oscar E. Binner, Prest.,

American Trust Building,

Chicago, Ill.
Dear ssir:-

I have received and read with much interest your
letter of February 15th. I consider the work of Luther
Burbank one of the really great achievements of the pres-
ent century. The man who by his genius adds to the yield
and quality of food products is entitled to the lasting
gratitude and esteem of all civilization, and Luther Bur-
bank is the man who has accomplished this beneficent act.

His triumphs in the manipulation and betterment
of plant life speak for themselves and it is my sincere,
hope that a knowledge of his methods and discoveries may
be placed within the reach of all.

Very truly yours

Page thirty-three

Mr. Burbank pollinating milkweed. A most delicate operation.

Shasta Daisy

Natural size and color.

Luther Burbank Series.

-age thirty-four

Strange form

developed in crossing seedling lilies.

Luther Burbank Series.

peg t ear ire

Pity PF) Mp) > 2 aT oe ee

French Prune at the left, Burbank
Sugar Prune at the right, showing com-
parative sizes when cured. About two-thirds
natural size. In 1890 thirty-five million pounds
of prunes were imported into the United States,
none exported. At present only about 500,000
pounds a year are imported and over fifty million
pounds a year exported. These figures will give
an idea of the amount of wealth annually added to
this country since the introduction of the Burbank

Prunes.

TH E CH ICAGO Pu BLIC lex BRARY Page thirty-five

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

ROBERT J ROULSTON. Pres
GEORGE B ARMSTRONG Vice PRES

GRAHAM TAYLOR EDWARD A BLODGETT
JULIUS STERN FREDERICK H RAWSON
ANTONIO LAGORIO MORTIMER FRANK

HENRY V FREEMAN

HARRY G.WILSON. SECRETARY
HENRY E LEGLER LIBRARIAN

fir. Oscar E. Binner, Chicago, January 16, 1911.

Publisher, American Trust Building,
Chicago.
My dear Wr, Binner:--
Ky thanke are due you for your kindness and
courtesy in showing to Dr . Frank and myself the interesting exhibit
of material which will later become a part of Iuther Burbenk's works.
Unquestionably the proposed publicétion wiit ve awaited with eagerness
by the general public and will be welcomed to the shelves of the public
libraries of the country. Judging from what you have shown me the pub-

lication will te a real contribution to knowledge.

Yours truly,

CHARLES W.COLE,
Es Fane woe SUPT. OF SCHOOLS.

C.EDWARD JONES,
ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT

CULYCOW ALBANY,

BOARD OF EDUCATION

BUELC. ANDREWS
DANFORTH ranswort| COMMISSIONERS ALB ANY, N.Y.

JOHN J.MSCALL

Oscar E, Binner, February 17, 1911.
American Trust Building,
Chicago, Ill.
Dear Sir:-
I am confident that the “broadcast publication" of

Luther Burbank's Records, “in accessible form and plein languages" would

be a blessing to all mankind.
Very truly yours

Supte of Schools.

Page thirty-six

CLARK M. BRINK, PH.D., PROFESSOR - Louis H. BEALL, A.B. AscisTANT PROFESSOR
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE. ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT CHARLAINE FURLEY, A.B., ASSISTANT

EsTELtA M. BOOT, A.M,, AssIsTANT
‘NELSON A. CRAWFORD. A.B.. ASSISTANT

Kansas State
Agricultural Callege

Mes VW. SEARSON, A.M., ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

ADA RICE, @.S.. IneTRUCTOR
ANNETTE LEONARD, A.B., INSTRUCTOR
FLORA KNIGHT, A.B., ASSISTANT

Bepariaent of Engliah Danguage anh Literature

Manuattan. Kansas, Fe@D.17,191 iy

Oscar E.Binner Co.,
Chicago,11l.
Gentlémen:-

It may well be doubted whether there is a man in America
to-day who is doing more for the welfare and happiness of mankind than
Luther Burbank,I have known something of his work indirectly for a number
of years,and the more I have learned the more confident I have become
that he is entitled to be counted as not only one of the geniuses of
our time but as one of the benefactors of the race.It seems to me that all
the gold taken from California's mines cannot equal in value the con-
tributions made to human comfort by that modest investigator in Cali-
fornia's gardens.He is doing much to make this world increasingly a
desirable place of residence.

OC. U(, lhe k

Dean of the College.

Page thirty-seven

Seedlings from Chilian Wild Potatoes.

Second Generation Seedlings from Chilian Wild Potatoes. Plate 10 inches across.

AM

Page thirty-eight

Cesta)» peek a Bey Lt eer,

Red Seedless Grape

of unusual sweetness and productiveness.

OFFICERS, 1910-15
PRESIDENT
WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON
President_Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
Vice-PRESIDENT
WILLIAM LOWE BRYAN

President Indiana University
loomington, Ind,

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
OF
STATE UNIVERSITIES

Page thirty-nine

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
The President, Vice-President,
Secretary of the Association
FRANKLIN BENJAMIN GAULT
President University of South
akota
Vermillion, S. D.
J. NEWTON TILLMAN
President University of Arkansas

€x-OFFICIO VICE-PRESIDENT Fayetteville, Ark.

ELMER ELLSWORTH BROWN
U.S. Commissioner of Education

Washington, D.C. Oxford, Ohio,

SECRETARY- TREASURER,
GUY POTTER BENTON
President Miami University
Oxford, Ohio

February sixteenth
Nineteen eleven.
My doar Mr, Binner:-

To my mind Mr. Luther Burbank is
one of the greatest benefactors the human race has ever
known. Personally, I shall be glad to see his obser-
vations, theories and conclusions put in popular form so
that as text books the children of the rising generation
may be benefited thereby.

You are undertaking a patriotic

task in which I wish you the lergest measure of success.

Cordially your friend,

RAITT

Feb. 18, 1911.

Oscar E. Binner,
Am. Trust Bldg.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir: --

I regard Luther Burbank as one of the greatest public bene-
fasters that has ever lived. His method of work should be known
to all-- should be put in such form and placed on sale at such price
that all who are interested may be reliably informed.

Long after Mr. Carnegie’s public libraries have crumbled to

dust and Mre Carnegie's name forgotten, Mr. bank'
blessing millions. 8 Bur S work will be

Very respec ly,

Page forty

PURDUE UNIVERSITY

WINTHROP ELLSWORTH STONE, Po. D. LL. D.,
PRESIDENT

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY

STANLEY COULTER, Pa. D., Dman or Sanoor or Sormnce:
Drenocror oF Lasoratorr,
JOSEPH O. ARTHUR. D. So., Purant PaYsioLoey snp PaTHoLocy -
SEVERANOB BURRAGE, Pu. D., Sanitary SOreNncR LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
HOWARD E. ENDERS, Pu. D., ZooLtoey
OLIVER P. THRRY, M. D., PayrsioLtocr anp ANaTOMY
GEORGD N. HOFFER, B. S., Inerrvuoror

, J, BREBZD, B. S., Ixstauctor February 16, 1911.

Mr. Oscar E. Binner,

Chicago, Illinois
Dear Sir:e-

Your letter of recent date relative to a proposed
publication in popular form of The Methods and Work of
Luther Burbank has been received.

In my opinion no more important publication could
be made than one which would bring to the people at large
in a clear cut and definite way some idea of the results
of Mr. Burbank's work and also of the methods which he
has employed to bring about those results.

Such a publication would be important not only
from an economic standpoint but also in that it would in-
dicate to people working with plants the possibilities that
tas in their skillful handling.

Very truly yours

a a

Page forty-one

Branch of Improved Beach Plum.

3-%% feet long

showing enormous productiveness.

More than ten thousand

kinds of plums

are growing

in these two rows.

Luther Burbank Series.

Page forty-two

Burbank Pears

Fully four times

as productive

as the Bartlett.

Stoneless Plums

T »ther Burbank Series.

Page forty-three

Che State Mnwersity of Jowa
Eiie of the Presitent Jowa City

February 16,1911
Dear Sirs

In reply te your request of February 15th, I
beg te say that for a leng time I and many cther educators
nave desired that the miracles cf Mr.Burbank might be
reccrdad in authentic form. If now a reputable publishing
house has gained his consent and the proper editers will
furnish the materjal, the enterprise will be of great werth
te the educaticnal as well as te the practical werld.
I shall be happy to receive a ocpy ¢f “Luther'Burbank's
Bounties".

Truly yours, 2
4 Apes
a ee Bee. he
Mr. Oscar E. Binner, Prasidene

Chicage, Ill.

WILLIAM M. SLATON
SUPT. SCHOOLS
ATLANTA, GEORGIA

Feb 18, 1911
Hen. Oscar E. Binner,

Anerican Trust Building,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Mr. Binner:-

I regard the wise and discriminating
publication of ir. Luther Burbank's achievements as
an act of marvelous benefit te mankind.

I should like very much to have the
privilege ef reading such a werk.

Very truly yceurs,
PR VWMassAa ES wate

8. . Supt. Scheols.

Page forty-four

THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
MADISON, WISCONSIN

OFPICE OF SUPERINTENDENT
ANTHONY DONOVAN, PRESIDENT
o. S. NORS |» SECRETARY
R. B..DUDGEON, SUPERINTENDENT

Feb. 16, TOU, *

Mr. Oscar E. Binner,
American Trust Building, Chicago, Illinois.
My dear Sir:

In compliance with your request under date of Feb-
ruary 15th I will say that I can conceive of no enter-
prise or movernent which will tend more to improve the
material condition of the people of our own country than

- the publication in a poplar form and at a reasonable
price of the methods and processes used by Luther Bur-
bank in his great work. These publications will have
greatly increased value because of the fact that they
are taken from Burbank's own record and brought ont un-

der his own Supervision.

Page forty-five

Ordinary Tools used by Mr. Burbank.

Luther Burbank Series.

Page forty-six

Cactus Pears

Vatural size and color

\s juicy as a ripe watermelon, with the flavor of pine-
pple. Usually sold at the same price as oranges |
Ithough produced at much less expense and there |

an never be a crop failure.

This fruit can be made into delicious jams, jellies |
nd syrups. Paint mixed with its juice lasts regardless
f exposure to weather. The juice of the crimson
ariety is a pure, unadulterated, permanent coloring

or other food products.

hirty full sized cactus pears growing on one leaf

‘velve inches wide.

Luther Burbank Series.

Doubleday, Page & Co., Publishers The World’s
Work, Country Life in America, The Garden Magazine,
Garden City, Long Island, N. Y.

“It must be a great privilege to be instrumental in
giving to the world the work of such a man as
Luther Burbank, and as a fellow publisher I con-
gratulate you that you are to be that instrument.
Most certainly the Works of Burbank will be re-
ceived with great interest by the country. You are
engaged in a tremendously important publishing en-
terprise, and be sure that you have our best wishes
for large financial returns.”

HERBERT S. HOUSTON,
Vice-President.

Houghton-Mifflin & Co., Boston, Mass.

“We are thoroughly alive to the tremendous im-
portance of Burbank’s work, and can foresee the
keen interest with which an account of it will be
received by the public.”

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

Curtis Publishing Co., Ladies Home Journal,
Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia, Pa.

“There is a world-wide interest in Mr. Burbank’s
methods, and if he proposes placing the facts before
the world in book form I have no doubt it will be a
profitable enterprise.”

CYRUS H. K. CURTIS,
President.

The Century Co., New York.

“The products of California are less wonderful
than the plants which Mr. Burbank has made. He

is a great genius.”
CENTURY MAGAZINE.

Carnegie Institute, Washington, D. C.

“It is my deliberate opinion that Burbank’s dis—
coveries will return five times the endowment of
the Carnegie Institute, which is ten million dollars.”

ROBT. S. WOODWARD,
President.

Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

“As the material prosperity of nations is meas—
ured by the quantity of food they produce, so must
be measured the greatness of the benefactions of
Luther Burbank, and according to the measure of
their greatness is the need of their being made the
people’s heritage by widespread publicity.”

JOSEPH HIMMEL,
President.

State of Missouri, Dept. of Education.

“Thomas A. Edison has harnessed and controlled
ONE of Nature’s forces, but Luther Burbank has
harnessed even Nature herself and has thereby made

man happier. C. A. GREEN,
Inspector of High Schools.

Ohio University, Athens.

“Command my help whenever my service can in
any way promote the cause in which you are inter-

ested.
ALSTON ELLIS,
President.

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.

“If he is a benefactor to humanity who makes two
blades of grass to grow where one grew before, it
is difficult to estimate the degree in which Mr. Bur-—
bank is such a benefactor. What this country needs
today, more than any other of a material kind, is

Page forty-seven

better methods of agriculture in all its forms. I hope
you will give to the people as widely as possible, and
as simply as possible, the information upon Mr. Bur-

bank’s methods.”
5. B. McCORMICK,
Chancellor.

State of Utah, Dept. of Public Instruction.

“I cannot too highly commend your proposition, as
I firmly believe that books containing the informa—
tion and results so skillfully wrung from Nature by
this wonderful man will be a most valuable contri-
bution to the world.”
A. C. NELSON,

State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

University of California.

“No one can tell to what ends of profit Luther
Burbank’s enterprises may attain. They seem to
have the world for their field, and the people of the
world know him as perhaps they do not know any
other single man on the planet. Any one with a
grain of common sense can see what a world-beating
commercial advantage adheres to his proposition.”

E, J. WICKSON,
Dean Agricultural College and Director Experiment
Stations.

Tufts Colle ge, Massachusetts.

“Nothing can be of more importance that the de-
velopment of improved processes of agriculture. I
know none who have obtained more remarkable
results than Luther Burbank, and I think it of the
utmost importance that his methods and processes
should be made known as widely as possible to the
people of the United States.”

FREDERICK W. HAMILTON,
President.

Board of Education, St. Louis, Mo.

“It is of very great importance that an account of
Luther Burbank’s work be published in such form as
will be within the reach of the very great number of
people who are intensely interested in the develop-
ment of forms of vegetable life.”

BEN BLEWETT,
Superintendent of Instruction.

Board of Education, Elizabeth, N. J.

“Tf the result of his researches, wide and varied
experience, together with his counsel, could be made
available for all mankind the resulting good should
exceed that produced by any teacher of men, the
great Nazarene alone excepted.”

RICHARD E. CLEMENT,
Superintendent of Public Schools.

The University of Oklahoma.

“I am glad that you are to publish in thoroughly
popular form the account of Luther Burbank’s won-
derful work. The advantage of this publication is
not merely in the fact that it will reveal secrets of
increased production to multitudes to whom such
knowledge means increase of wealth, but that it will
ultimately do more for inspiring others to work with
the spirit of devotion that has made Mr. Burbank’s
work so valuable.”

A. GRANT EVANS,
President.

Board of Education, Sidney, Ohio.

“In my opinion Luther Burbank is pre-eminently
the greatest benefactor that the Omnipotent Creator
has given us in this generation.”

HERBERT R. McVAY,
Superintendent of Public Schools.

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Brigham Young College, Logan, Utah.

“No agriculturist, horticulturist or florist can afford
to be without them; in fact, no one claiming any
sympathy with world’s progress can be excused.”

JAMES M. LINFORD,
President.

State of Illinois, Educational Commission.

“It is gratifying to know that the practical results
of the work of Mr. Burbank are now to be brought
to the people themselves.”

R. E. HIERONYMUS,
Secretary.

Alabama Educational Association,
Anniston,

“Making Mr. Burbank’s work accessible to the
general public is a real service to the country and
must result in accomplishing much good.”

DAVID R. MURPHY,
Chairman.

Pacific University, Forest Grove, Ore.

“Luther Burbank has added marvelously to the
agricultural wealth of the country. He is entitled
to the lasting gratitude of his fellowmen. I am glad
to know that it is proposed to publish a record of the
work of Luther Burbank.”

WM. N. FERRIN,

President.

Board of Education, Dover, N. H.

“Luther Burbank has done as much for mankind
as the greatest inventors. It would be a great pleas-
ure to read of his entire work and discoveries.”

A. H. KEYES,
Superintendent of Schools.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Depart-
ment of Public Instruction.

“TI consider Luther Burbank a genius whose ori-
ginal work deserves to be known by all tillers of the
soil.” NATHAN C, SCHAEFFER,

State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

State House, Providence, R. I.

“The startling achievements of Luther Burbank at
first seemed the work of a wizard, but when his real
service to mankind is discerned he will be known as

a great public benefactor.”
WALTER E. RANGER,
State Commissioner of Schools.

Cotner University, Bethany, Nebr.

“I am glad Luther Burbank’s ‘Victories of Peace’
are to receive the attention they richly deserve.”
W. P. ALYSWORTH,
Chancellor.

Southern Educational Association,
Lexington, Ky.

“T know of nothing that will be of greater or more
lasting benefit to society than a broad reading and
discussion of Luther Burbank’s ways and means of
making two blades of grass grow where one grew
before.” M. A. CASSIDY,

President.

Board of Education, Englewood, N. J.

“Luther Burbank is in the field of agricultural
production what Edison is in the field of invention.
The publication of his methods should be of very
great value to mankind.”

ELMER C. SHERMAN,
Superintendent of Schools.

State Agricultural and Mechanical Col-
lege, Tallahassee, Fla.

“I am particularly glad that you are to publish
something from Luther Burbank’s pen to enlighten
the world in better methods of plant production.”

F. H. CARDOZO,
State Agriculturist.

Michigan State Teachers Association.

“Luther Burbank is known the world over as the
greatest contributor toward the improvement of
plant life. It will be of very great value to this same
world to know more in detail of the wonders that

he has accomplished.”
JOHN P. EVERETT,
Secretary.

University of Missouri, Columbia.

“I have the highest opinion of the value of Luther
Burbank’s work, and should be very glad to see his
methods and achievements brought within easy
reach of the people-at-large through adequate pub-—
lication.” R. H. JESSE,

President.

Luther College, New Orleans, La.

“The publication and distribution of Luther Bur-
bank’s methods will result in contributing more
wealth direct to the people’s purses than the greatest
invention of any age. It will be a blessing to man-
kind.” R. A. WILDE,

President.

University of South Dakota, Vermillion.

“The knowledge of Luther Burbank’s great work
is valuable to the multitude and will stimulate many
another soul to similar achievements. Certainly the
world should know more about Burbank and what

he has done for the race.”
FRANKLIN B. GAULT,
President.

University of Arizona, Tucson.

“Luther Burbank has doubtless inspired many
private individuals to work in plant breeding whose
results will ripen to bless the Nation after Mr. Bur-
bank himself has long passed away.”

GEO. F. FREEMAN,
Plant Breeder.

Washington College, Chestertown.

“If people generally, and particularly those who
grow the crops, could learn more definitely the
methods of this man who has made two blades grow
where one grew before, I am sure it would be better

for them and all mankind.” JAS. W. CAIN,
President.

Experiment Station, Kansas State Agri-
cultural College, Hays.

“In the event a proper treatise of Burbank’s ac—
complishment can be given to the world, no amount
of physical exertion nor financial outlay should deter
the preparation and distribution of so great a boon
as it will undoubtedly prove to humanity.”

O. K. HELDER,
Assistant Superintendent and Secretary.

Norwich University, Northfield, Vt.

“The story of Luther Burbank’s accomplishments
is a high incentive to emulation, and a detailed ac—
count of his methods should be of immeasurable

value to the Nation.”
CHAS. H. SPOONER,
President.

Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Texas, College Station.

“Luther Burbank is a great man and his work will
live to bless future generations.”
ROBERT T. MILNER,
President.

University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

“Luther Burbank has given more to the world in
the way of new plants than any other man that has
lived. I predict for his books remarkable success.”

WM. STEWART,
Principal, State Normal School.

Virginia Union University, Richmond.

“Tt would be a large contribution to the pleasure
and the interest of men if the methods of Mr. Luther
Burbank could be described and made accessible to
all.” GEORGE RICE HOVEY,

President.

Board of Education, Vancouver, Wash.

“If Luther Burbank should die without having
put into available form the results of his years of
sacrifice and toil, the world would be a great loser.
A personally supervised record of his methods and
discoveries will certainly be of unusual value.”

Cc. W. SHUMWAY,
Superintendent of Schools.

State Educational Commission, Columbia,S.C.

“The proposed books dealing with the work and
discoveries of Luther Burbank will prove a bene-
faction to many people.”

J. E. SWEARINGEN,
State Superintendent of Education.

College of Idaho, Caldwell.

“Don’t let this great benefactor die without will-
ing his wonderful knowledge of plant life to the
world. Just to think of Burbank is an inspiriation.”

W. J. BOONE,
President.

Connecticut Agricultural College, Storrs.

“The publication of Luther Burbank’s methods
and achievements will be a valuable contribution to

agriculture and science.”
CHAS. L. BEACH,
President.

State Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colo.

“The entire Nation is deeply interested in his
work. All of us are waiting for him to tell how he
does things. His publication will be productive of
more good than we can estimate.”

CHAS. A. LORY,
President.

State Board of Education, w. Va.

“As a discoverer, if not a creator, of food plants
Luther Burbank has done more to lower the cost of
living and to enrich the common people than all the
legislation of the last twenty years. We have but
one Luther Burbank.” U.S. FLEMING,

Secretary.

~ Oklahoma State Educational Association,
Oklahoma City.

“The world owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Bur-
bank for the marvelous service he is rendering to
man.” J. B. TAYLOR,

President.

State Normal School, Milwaukee, Wis.

“Mr. Luther Burbank is a National asset not only
because of his economic contribution to our phys-
ical welfare, but also because of the intellectual in-
spiration he has been to thousands.”

CHARLES McKENNY,
President.

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Southwestern Presbyterian University,
Clarksville, Tenn.

“I think Luther Burbank’s achievements to be of
the highest scientific and practical value and of great
general interest.” WM. DINWIDDIE,

Chancellor,

Normal University, Las Vegas, New Mex.

“The publication of the results of Luther Bur-
bank’s experiments should mark an era in the world’s
history.” FRANK H.H. ROBERTS,

President.

Columbia University, New York City.

“Luther Burbank has had the genius to look at
things as if no cther human being had ever seen
them before, and from his keen vision rich benefits
to humanity have accrued.”

RAYMOND WEEKS.

North-Western College, Naperville, Ill.

“Luther Burbank’s discoveries touch the very
foundations of modern civilization and point the
way to still greater progress in the near future. The
mastery of the resources of Nature becomes more
and more an assured accomplishment because of the
life and labors of Luther Burbank.”

H. J. KIEKHOEFER.

Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal.

_ “Luther Burbank has helped mankind by increas-
ing enormously the economic values of plant-life.”
DAVID STARR JORDAN,
President.

University of Montana, Missoula.

“Tf the knowledge of what Luther Burbank has
been doing can be generally diffused it will certainly
benefit the world at large.”

Cc. A. DUNIWAY,
President.

Clark University, Worcester, Mass.

“Mr. Burbank’s work is of the very greatest value
practically, and has suggested and even solved many
problems that were impossible before.”

G. STANLEY HALL,
President.

Board of Education, Duluth, Minn.

“The people of America, and of the world, would
be greatly benefited by a knowledge of his methods
employed to secure the wonderful results that have
been achieved by him.” R. E. DENFELD,

Superintendent of Schools.

Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical
College, Agricultural College.

“Any plan that would result in making Luther
Burbank’s methods and processes known to the
people-at-large is of great importance to the whole
country.” J.C. HARDY,

President.

State Normal School, Valley City, N. D.

“You are rendering the world a great service in
making it possible for the people to know of the
wonderful accomplishments of Luther Burbank and
his achievements, methods and processes.”

GEO. A. McFARLAND,
President.

Iowa State College of Agriculture, Ames.

“A publication setting forth in practical and yet
accurate manner the methods employed in securing
Mr. Burbank’s results would certainly be very valu-
able.” H. D. HUGHES,

State Agriculturist.

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North Georgia Agricultural College,
Dahlonega.

“Any man who can enable the world to use what
Luther Burbank knows will do a matchless service
for mankind.” G. R. GLENN,

President.

Virginia Christian College, Lynchburg, Va.

“Mr. Burbank is a distinct blessing to the human
race. His marvelous results have turned the atten-
tion of thousands to agricultural pursuits, thereby
not only relieving the congested and vice—producing
condition of our cities, but giving the nation a larger
class of sturdy, royal, self-contented, self-sustaining
freemen.incapable of being used as tools for political
and financ afters. The more that is known of

Luther Burbamk’s methods.and achievements the bet-
ter for the individual and the nation.”
* J. HOPWOOD,
President.

University of Maine, Orono.

“Luther Burbank’s methods and success point the
way to future possibilities that seem boundless in
their significance. His record of wonderful achieve-
ment will bestow upon the race a legacy of enduring
and incalculable value.”

CHARLES DAVIDSON,
Dean.

State Agricultural School, Monticello, Ark.

“Luther Burbank’s work is the wonder of the plant
world.” FRANK HORSFALL,
Principal.

School of Agriculture, Purdue Univer-
sity, Lafayette, Ind.

“The publication of the works of Mr. Luther Bur-
bank will be of great value to the world, and of great
help to the great causes that are now moving to the
betterment of mankind.” CHAS. MAJOR,

Chairman, Board of Trustees.

Department of Public Instruction, State
of North Carolina.

“The publication and wide distribution of Luther
Burbank’s own story of the results of his ingenious
methods and processes is greatly to be desired to
render an invaluable service to the masses of men,”

J.W. JOYNER,
State Superintendent, Public Instruction.

Ft. Worth University, Ft..Worth, Texas.

“Permit me to express my sincere and profound
appreciation of the genius and achievements of
Luther Burbank. He ranks among the country’s
greatest benefactors and his triumphs over Nature
have won for him immortality. May he live long,
work hard, and witness even greater victory!”

WILLIAM FIELDER,
President.

Executive Department, State of Minne-
sota, St. Paul.

“T consider that Mr. Luther Burbank’s work has
been of immeasurable value to the whole world.”

A. O. EBERHART,
Governor,

Governor’s Office, Commonwealth of
Virginia, Richmond.

“The publication of what Luther Burbank has
wrought and his methods will, in my opinion, be of
the greatest benefit to the people of this country and
indeed of the world, and he owes it to himself and
the world to make the publication which he now
contemplates.” WM. HODGES MANN,

Governor.

Executive Department, State of Oregon,
Salem.

“Any publicaticn which will tend to familiarize the
people of the world with the work of Mr. Burbank
will be of great value to mankind generally.”

OSWALD WEST,
Governor.
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Executive Department, State of Califor-
nia.
“Burbank, like Columbus, has shown us the way to

new continents, new forms of life, new sources of
wealth, and we, following in his footsteps, will profit

by and from his genius.”
, GEO. C. PARDEE,
Governor.

“One need not be a farmer to be interested in
farming. The work of a man like Luther Burbank
appeals to an immense constituency.”

PROF. L. H. BAILEY,
In the “World’s Work.”

University of Chigago.

“A complete account of the work of Luther Bur—-
bank should mark the beginning of a new epoch in
agriculture.” ROLLIN D. SALISBURY,

‘ Dean.

New Zealand, Australia.

“We wish to have a permanent bound record of
the origin of the wonderful creations which are build-
ing up a lasting monument to Mr. Burbank in Aus-
tralia.”

WHANGAREI FRUIT GROWERS ASSN.

Trappists Nursery, Dronkvlei, Natal, Africa.

“Mr. Burbank’s products enjoy a splendid reputa—
tion in Africa and have added vastly to the. native
wealth.” BALDWIN REINER.

University of Amsterdam, Holland.

“Luther Burbank is the greatest breeder of plants
the world has ever known. The magnitude of his
work excels anything that was ever done before,
EVEN BY LARGE FIRMS IN THE COURSE

OF GENERATIONS.”
. DR. HUGO DE VRIES.

Tokio, Japan.

“Our public knows this great man’s name and
work and wishes to get his wonderful books in
Japan.” J. IKEDA & CO.,

Nurserymen.

It would take volumes to reprint the commendations received by the
Oscar E. Binner Company—Luther Burbank’s Accredited Publishers —

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