| Show I Lets Let's OW G Gow Tl Ti ees natal Of all the resources resource of the United States tha most ital ital accord according mg ing to Mr r IS 13 soil land oil the stuff from which the ithe future must eat The loss of land lantI b needless soil sod er- er eroSion erosion er erosion IS 13 the greatest extra 1 nce of the age Man l pleas a hillside grows rows crops of corn 01 or cotto cotton and after a avery avery avery very few crops to field is ruined In Inthis Inthis Inthis this ay way the American Nation has alread ruined the possible home homeSiteS homesites homesites SiteS of millions f t menThe menThe men menThe The American Magazine in Its June issue haz hazards hazards ds the prediction that the whole c ence of agriculture will Hill shortly chant 1 t from the growing of short lived cis ci ps to the growing of trees which QU I provide Ion lived crops Dr J Ru Rui Rus ell Smith of Coluni Colum Columbia bin bla University the greatest living au authority on econ economic ex explains ex- ex explains explains plains the idea inja I it a revolutionary ry v m in j I It ItIS is merely an art aJ accident of he sa sass s that that agriculture started ith started with Ith annual plants grasses grasses wheat rIce and corn corn m corn instead of with trees trees trees- date olive accorn and others Peo Ipie pie cin lie li 11 c lust well ell ellon on md and walnuts and andi i similar foods food as on the seeds of grasses We need now a whole series of new crop trees cs I making food for nien and his domestic domes domestic tiC animals and nt and fit it the same time holding and ind conserving cons the precIous soils with ith their rots roots The United States St tes is rich in nati e na natie tl tie tle e trees of gr it t promise to be improved The The accorn can be made to rival coth ci as pig feed and cow feed The loney ioney locust bean s sI mi ma Tl mil rial 1 h t The T e persimmon and Ind avocado a l ir ar amon among the most I nutritious fruits fruit known A million d dollars invested during the next t 20 yea years in m constructive re research research search and ind on tree crop agriculture probably revolution re the science vf rf farming Here IS ISa isa isa a remarkable o ory for some person to create i world famous m- m institution in institution and renter render inestimable ser ser- service service ser service vice to mankind I r |
