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Show TREE AGRICULTURE NOT NEW Immense Possibilities When the Subject Sub-ject Has Been Thoroughly and Scientifically Sifted. The modern conception of "treo agriculture" ag-riculture" is new it is only a few years since men began to discuss the possibility ot substituting permanent trees for annual seed-bearing grains ob the world's food Bupply. But the fact of tree agriculture is very old, and few who live in northern lands have any Idea how far it has progressed pro-gressed in the hot regions. Thero are some 60,000,000 cocoanut trees in tho Island of Ceylon, valued at nearly $200,000,000. They furnish much of the food supply of the Inhabitants. The dato palms of tho Pacific aro other examples of tropical fruit trees; and the chestnutB, carobs and olives of southern Europe show something of what can bo done in cooler climates. In tho grasp of modern science, trees nro as pliant as animals. When wo consider what has been accomplished accom-plished in animal breeding In the last two centuries, we get some Idea of treo farming as our descendants may practlco it 200 years henco. |