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Show 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 crop because of their high food value. I heir long keeping qualities and the long life of the trees. lint there are many other tree crops almost entirely neg-I neg-I looted 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, t lie avocado, the pawpaw, the caroh, the lig, are examples, l'.ut 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 of our time waiting on these animals. Why not make our hogs and chickens, for example, wait on themselves by having good crop trees, ninny of which keep dropping their fruit over a large period of time, under which we can pasture them? In Portugal they entirely en-tirely fatlen their pigs on acorns and in some of the Mediterranean islands on chestnuts. Kxcliange. |