The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 6, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 June 1911 — Page 1

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John Kuhns Sentenced. John Kuhns, formerly a resident of Noble county, later a resident of Columbus, Ohio and who recently ■ stole a team of horses belonging to W.aO. Shambaugh of Noble county, appeared in the Noble county circuit court at Albion last Thursday, pleaded guilty of grand larceny and was sentended to the penitentiary at Michigan City for from three to fifteen years. Kuhns pleaded guilty to the charge but asked that he might be' saved the appearance in public. Accordingly Judge Wrigley went to the jail where Kuhns was arrainged. In answer to the question whether he was guilty or not he answered in the affirmative and sentence was at once pronounced. Attention, K, of P.’s. The annual Memorial Day services will be held at the Opera House May 11,1911. Members will meet at the Castle Hall at 1 o’clock p. m. Your presence is earnestly requested. Fraternally, Otis C. Butt, K. of R. & S. r — —-

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Delighted With Syracuse. Misses Francis Shafer and Harriet Greenwald of Chicago are spending a week at Mrs. Rosa Juday’s home at which they are enjoying a most splendid vaction. They think Syracuse an ideal spot for a vacation and would have liked to spend several weeks here but their employment at Central Office of the Epworth League compels them to return. Syracuse was an unfamiliar place to them not knowing any of the inhabitants, but they were soon relieved of that feeling after being acquainted with Mrs. Juday as they consider her a fine entertainer. Mrs. Jess Strieby and Mrs. Jess Darr and children visited over Sunday with ther sister, Mrs. Anna Plank at Goshen. While there Thel ma Darr drank some coal oil and was seirously ill for a short time until she threw the oil up. Miss Dorothy Rohm of Auburn, is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bundy.

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SYRACUSE, INDIANA. THURSDAY. JUNE 8, 1911

LUTHER BURBANK, WIZARD OF HORTICULTURE The essay’ of Miss Josie Rippey read on Class Day, was of such interest to us and on a subject so little known to many of us, that we thought it might be of interest to our readers. The essay in full follows: If a man’s greatness is measured by his service to mankind, Luther Burbank deserves no inferior place. He has done pioneer work in a field that offers great possibilities. He is called the “Wizard of Horticulture.” He well deserves this title, for some of his plant creations seem, indeed, to have been produced by magic. He was born in New England, in the country of rocks and hills and rigorous climate. He obtained an ordinary education in school, but his greatest school in preparing for life was his mother’s garden. When he was small if he became dissatisfied a flower would be given to him, he would laugh and play with it and be more pacified than if his brother or sister would try to amuse him. When he became older almost all of his time was spent in the garden, and his love increased for plant life. After he had grown to manhood the Burbank family moved to California. He afterwards wrote to a friend in New England that he was thankful for this country, the fruit was of great interest to him. The wonderful climate and rich varied soil was what he needed to carry ori*his work. Santa Rosa, his chosen home, some 50 or 60 miles north of the Golden Gate, is a typical California country town full of gardens, flowers, foliage and birds. On its outskirts looking off to a far range of hills, is his cottage buried in vines and blossoms, with gardens and experiment grounds behind it. It is here that he is doing his work. His best known result in vegetatables was achieved when he was a very young man in the production of the famous Burbank potato. This plant has enriched the nation millions of dollars and for this the youthful Burbank received SIOO. An incident is told of him which illustrates his resourcefulness and daring in plant propagation. When he was a young nurseryman he received an order for 20,000 young prune trees to set out. The order was to be filled in nine months Ordinarily it would have taken two' and a half years to raise the trees. But not for Luther Burbank. It was late in the season and almond seed was the only seed that would sprout at that time of the year which was suitable for his plan. He planted almond seed and in a short time the plants were ready for budding. 20,000 prune bods were budded iiito these shoots and the young trees were ready at the end of the nine months. Another of his early productions is the primus berry. It is the first recorded instance of a species produced by crossing the Siberian raspberry with the native California dewberry; it is very productive, of an unique flavor and ripens its fruits before most of standard blackberries and raspberries bloom. Although Burbank has experimented with nearly all kinds of fruit, he is most interested in the plum. The plumcot is a combination of the apricot and the Japanese plum, and is a distinct new fruit still undergoing improvement. There are many varieties of the plumcot, some resemble clingstone, others free, while the seeds of some resemble the seed of an apricot; the flesh of some is yellow, others deep crimson. ■» , Burbank noticed that a certain

plum had a slight flavor of a Bartlett pear. He treasured it and developed it into a new kind of plum ' by pursuing a method similar to that in the case of the plumcot. By crossing the Chinese plum and Japanese quince he has produced the climax plum. He has introduced over twenty varieties of plums and prunes, each with some distinctive and valuable characteristic, and he made several thousand of new plum and prune combinations, many of which are now under test. His two most useful kinds of plums are the Burbank and Wickson. The Wickson is a cross of the Burbank and Kelsey plum. The stoneless plum is a cross of the French plum and the wild plum. The stone is almost eliminated. The result is large plums with an inferior flavor to the cultivated ones. His attention is now turned to improving their flavor. The sugar prune, a large early,| prolific bearing prune, was produced by grafting the seedlings from the common French prune on an older tree to make them ripen earlier and enlarge the size. The pineapple quince is an improved quince which has a flower like that of the pineapple. The famous Shasta daisy is the greatest outcome of his experiment with flowers. The native poppy of California is a single unbeautiful flower, but Burbank crossed this until he had produced a very beautiful flower. By crossing cactus plants with a few thorns, he produced a thornless cactus; afterwards by much labor 1 he produced fruit-bearing cactuses. This fruit would be of great importance to the people living in arid regions, and capse the deserts to be more thickly populated. Burbank brought a strange flower into existence by crossing two flowers. Many said it was the most beautiful ever seen. People came to Santa Rosa for a year to see this beautiful flower, but by the next year the plant was gone and could not be brought back into existence' again with all of Burbank’s efforts. He has brought some peculiar plants into existence. When he crossed the raspberry and strawberry a plant was summoned into existence with thorns of the raspberry but with leaves and stolens of the strawberry, shooting up canes to the height of a man’s shoulders, bursting into an astonishing bloom of flowers such as neither the strawberry or raspberry ever knows, and finally producing instead of berries, insignificant unmaturing knobs. Then he crossed the blackberry and apple. The result was a plant sprouting from blackberry seeds that resembled a little apple tree in foliage and growth, having no thorns, and putting forth beautiful rose colored flowers but no fruit. Burbank’s latest production in the way of fruit is the pomato, a cross between the potato and tomato. By the power of selection he succeeded in the course of about five years in training the plant to grow several times the size of an ordinary potato plant, and to produce instead of the original small bulbs, a white fruit from an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half in diameter, with tender skin like that of the tomato. The Burbank experiments prove that the plant world is plastic to human touch and that we may shape it at our will. We need not go on generation after generation eating the same fruit, smelling the same flowers, admiring the same colors. The perfumes and flavors shall reflect our own preferences. Luther Burbank has laid his fingers on the pulse of nature and his ear next her heart until he has learned the force and directions of her life currents and has been able

through scientific co-operation to aid her in higher, freer, and more I beautiful developments. He says: “Crossing is only the first step. Selection from the numerous variations secured in the second and few succeeding generations is the real work of plant creation.” He says: “Plant breeding to be successful must be conducted like architecture, definite plans must be laid for the proposed creation, suitable material selected with judgment and these must be sei curely placed in their proper order and position. No occupation requires more accuracy, foresight and skill than does plant breeding. HorI ticulturists with a lifetime of experience find themselves unable to imitate or even to understand the swift intuition. When he made his famous “white blackberry” he selected just one plant out of 60,000. i Grafting hastens the fruition of new kinds of plants. He has one apple tree which bears 526 varieties of apples growing on grafted i branches. | He makes plants vary by crossing them. When he crosses plants he picks off all the flowers that he thinks will fall. From the ones that are left on the trees he cuts off the petals so the bees will not be attracted to pollenate them and then pollenates them with the pollen he wishes. Os the thousands of seedlings a few are selected, and perhaps crossed with some plant, these are grown and the process continues until a desirable form is secured. The most important part is telling which is good and which is not. Thus by pollenizing, grafting, budding, but above all wisely selecting, his work goes on. It is astonishing what a great number and different kinds of plants he has produced, some to withstand the cold; fruits have been made larger, stones have been removed, thorns eliminated, shells made thinner, and if the fruit could not withstand the cold they were made thick as they were before. Gladiolias have been trained ~to grow all around the stem; calla Tillies have great splendid flowers, huge amaryllises have been made, verbenas that have a sweet unknown fragrance filling the air; geraniums are of a size unknown to man. There are crosses made of such as peach and almond, peach and plum, almond and Japanese plum, quince and crabapple, rose and apple, quince and blackberry, blackberry and apple. That bis work is appreciated, too, is shown by the fact that Burbank Day is being observed in California on his birthday, in honor of him, and the Carnegie Institute at Washington is giving him an annual Sum of SIO,OOO for a period of ten years. Burbank is a notable example of “the man who can.” He has chosen his path of action and followed it with intelligence and enthusiasm. His name will live, and his work will stand as a monument to his devotion to a noble purpose.* The lives of all made fuller on account of his labors, and his career will be an inspiration to the young of the future generations. May he live to enjoy the full fruits of his labors. C. Ross Smith was at home from Findlay, Ohio, last week to spend a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Smith, living west of town. He returned Wednesday to attend the commencement exercises which will be tomorrow, and is one of a class of 34 who will graduate from the commercial department of the college there. Mrs. Jacob Weybright, Mrs. Claude Niles and children and Daisy Yohe were the guests of Wm. Sheffield and family Sunday.

Magazines By .Fast Freight. Beginning July 1, all Hoosiers who are subscribers to magazines may have to wait a few days longer than usual for their reading matter to be placed in their home mail boxes. Postmaster General Hitchcock has issued orders for the movement of magazines and other bulky periodicals going into the third contract section, comprising the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, lowa and Missouri, by freight. The publishers will place their products in fast freight cars at the doors of their plants, each car labeled to a distributing center designated by the postoffice department. Stationary railway mail postoffices at the distributing points, manned by regular railway clerks, will then send the magazines to the designated offices. Cincinnati has been selected, according to the order, as the distributing center for Indiana, Ohio and other southern territory. Other distributing centers designated by the department are Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Omaha, St. Louis and St. Paul. It is expected this order is the first step of the department in materially reducing the force of the railway mail service in this section.—Ex.

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NO. 6

Re-elected County Supt. At a meeting of the township trustees of Kosciusko county Monday Edeson B. Sarber was re-elec-ted superintendent of the Koscituko county schools, a position he has held for two terms. A tie vote was cast for Sarber and Richard Vanderveer, of Milford. The deciding ballot was cast by Auditor John C. Beagle and Sarber was declared elected for a third term. Water Notice. Water rent is due on or’ before July 1, 1911, in advance. jB-2t Otis C. Butt, Clerk. Mrs. Isaac Myers left Mone ay for Columbia City where she expects to stay all summer. Mrs. Coil of Muncie came the same day to stay with her mother, Mrs. Yohe. Miss Daisy Yohe will spend the summer in the east and Mrs. Brown expects to travel this summer for the same firm she did last year. Improvements are still going on in the community south of the lake. Albert Hibner is making some desirable changes and painting bis house and outbuildings. Mrs. Mary Kmcaide has remodeled hei house and will have as pretty a little home as any around tire lake. Let the good work go on.