Gunnison Valley News | 1919-10-10 | Page 7 | Big Food Supply Neglected

BIG FOOD SUPPLY NEGLECTED Writer Points Out How Great Savings Might Be Effected By Cultivation Cultiva-tion of Certain Trees. Nuts are the best of all tree crops because of their high food value, their long keeping qualities and the long life of the trees. But there are many other tree crops almost entirely neglected neg-lected by us. In tropical countries the food of whole nations is largely derived de-rived from tree fruits, both for man and animal. The bread fruit, the banana, the Avocado, the pawpaw, the cavob, the fig, are examples. But with such fruits as the American pawpaw, the persimmon, the mulberry, the honey locust, the acorn and beechnut are neglected sources of food, especially espec-ially for animals. Doctor Smith says that our domesticated animals eat about nine-tenths of our food crops and that we spend a large part f our time waiting on these animals. Why not make our hogs and chickens, for example, wait on themselves by having good crop trees, many of which 'keep-dropping their fruit over a large period of time, under which we enn pasture them? In Portugal they entirely en-tirely fatten their pigs on acorns and in sonn' of the Mediterranean islands on chestnuts. Exchange.