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  offer 
  great 
  possibilities 
  as 
  forage 
  producers. 
  The 
  mulberry 
  bears 
  

   from 
  June 
  to 
  September 
  and 
  the 
  persimmon 
  from 
  September 
  

   till 
  March 
  and 
  the 
  pig 
  harvests 
  them 
  himself. 
  

  

  We 
  have 
  the 
  possibility 
  of 
  a 
  brand-new 
  agriculture, 
  depend- 
  

   ing 
  not 
  upon 
  grains, 
  but 
  upon 
  tree 
  crops, 
  provided 
  someone 
  

   will 
  breed 
  the 
  crop-yielding 
  trees 
  which 
  we 
  can 
  use. 
  This 
  will 
  

   permit 
  us 
  to 
  use 
  entirely 
  different 
  kinds 
  of 
  land 
  from 
  that 
  now 
  

   considered 
  best 
  for 
  agriculture. 
  The 
  natural 
  necessities 
  for 
  plant 
  

   growth, 
  I 
  believe, 
  are 
  heat, 
  moisture, 
  sunlight 
  and 
  fertility. 
  

   Now 
  they 
  are 
  not 
  all 
  the 
  limiting 
  factors 
  with 
  man, 
  because 
  

   man 
  adds 
  the 
  fifth, 
  the 
  arbitrary 
  fact 
  of 
  arability, 
  and 
  that 
  right 
  

   away 
  bars 
  out 
  about 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  fertile 
  earth, 
  because 
  when 
  we 
  

   insist 
  on 
  heat, 
  Hght, 
  moisture, 
  fertility 
  and 
  arability, 
  we 
  leave 
  

   out 
  that 
  rough 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  earth 
  equally 
  fertile, 
  idle, 
  subject 
  

   only 
  to 
  the. 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  forester, 
  who 
  will 
  give 
  us 
  a 
  forest 
  about 
  

   1999. 
  It 
  might 
  just 
  as 
  well 
  be 
  planted 
  with 
  a 
  host 
  of 
  crop- 
  

   yielding 
  trees, 
  the 
  walnuts, 
  hickory 
  nuts, 
  pecans, 
  persimmons, 
  

   mulberries 
  — 
  and 
  the 
  list 
  is 
  very 
  long. 
  There 
  are 
  at 
  the 
  present 
  

   time 
  in 
  use 
  in 
  Mediterranean 
  countries 
  twenty-five 
  crop-yield- 
  

   ing 
  trees 
  other 
  than 
  the 
  ordinary 
  orchard 
  fruits. 
  I 
  am 
  told 
  that 
  

   they 
  have 
  oak 
  trees 
  there 
  which 
  yield 
  an 
  acorn 
  that 
  is 
  better 
  

   than 
  the 
  chestnut. 
  A 
  pig 
  will 
  fill 
  himself 
  with 
  acorns 
  on 
  the 
  

   one 
  hillside 
  and 
  with 
  figs 
  on 
  the 
  next 
  hillside 
  and 
  then 
  lie 
  down 
  

   and 
  get 
  fat. 
  We 
  are 
  too 
  industrious, 
  we 
  wait 
  on 
  the 
  pig; 
  I 
  want 
  

   the 
  pig 
  to 
  wait 
  on 
  himself. 
  

  

  But 
  who 
  is 
  going 
  to 
  breed 
  these 
  things 
  ? 
  These 
  crop 
  yield- 
  

   ing 
  trees 
  ? 
  A 
  gentleman 
  told 
  us 
  this 
  morning 
  that 
  he 
  was 
  not 
  

   nervous, 
  that 
  he 
  could 
  watch 
  a 
  hickory 
  tree 
  grow, 
  and 
  stated 
  

   that 
  he 
  had 
  forty 
  acres 
  of 
  land 
  and 
  was 
  breeding 
  trees 
  for 
  fun. 
  

   Here 
  is 
  Dr. 
  Morris, 
  who 
  is 
  having 
  a 
  delicious 
  time 
  doing 
  the 
  

   same 
  thing. 
  We 
  should 
  not 
  have 
  to 
  depend 
  on 
  enthusiasts 
  who 
  

   are 
  working 
  for 
  fun; 
  we 
  must 
  not 
  depend 
  on 
  such 
  sources 
  for 
  

   the 
  greatest 
  gifts 
  in 
  the 
  line 
  of 
  food 
  production 
  that 
  man 
  can 
  

   imagine. 
  This 
  work 
  should 
  be 
  done 
  by 
  every 
  state 
  in 
  the 
  Union. 
  

   I 
  believe 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  capable 
  of 
  proof 
  that 
  we 
  can 
  get 
  just 
  as 
  much 
  

   yield 
  from 
  a 
  hillside 
  in 
  unfilled 
  fruit 
  and 
  nut-yielding 
  trees, 
  

   as 
  we 
  can 
  from 
  putting 
  that 
  same 
  hillside 
  under 
  the 
  plough 
  

   and 
  getting 
  wheat, 
  corn, 
  barley, 
  rye 
  and 
  oats 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  grass 
  

   once 
  in 
  a 
  while. 
  It 
  will 
  make 
  just 
  as 
  much 
  pig 
  or 
  just 
  as 
  many 
  

   calories 
  of 
  man 
  food 
  from 
  the 
  tree 
  crops 
  as 
  it 
  will 
  make 
  under 
  

   the 
  plough. 
  And 
  under 
  the 
  plough 
  that 
  hillside 
  is 
  going 
  down 
  

   the 
  stream 
  to 
  choke 
  it 
  and 
  reduce 
  the 
  hillside 
  to 
  nothing. 
  

  

  