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NOTES OX MEDIATE AND IiMArEDL\TE GRAFTING* 

 AT ALL TIMES OF THE YEAR 



By Dr. R. T. Morris, Connecticut 



Any newly described fact, which releases information on the sub- 

 ject of tree grafting opens vistas of the new fi-ontier in world agri- 

 culture. 



Time was when men went from one country to another in search 

 of fresh top soil. That was when they did not know better. It was 

 when thtir cogs of habit turned their cogs of thought. They were 

 engaged in r.'iising annual plants at a considerable expenditure of time, 

 labor and expense. They committed wastage of soluble plant foods (a 

 variety of sin). 



Malthus formulated a famous over-population fear-thought. It 

 had basis in his ignorance of the fact that steam was soon to become a 

 factor in the spreading of food supplies. Furthermore, he seem- 

 ingly did not know that when old top-soil frontiers had gone to 

 the rear, new frontiers would appear in the sub-soil. The tree digs 

 deeper than the farmer ever plowed. 



After Malthus came hunger prophets who were ignorant of com- 

 ing possibilities of fleet transportation through the air. The cater- 

 pillar tractor plunging into the tropical jungle will allow of the pro- 

 duction of a practically unlimited food supply. Famine in India, 

 China, and Russia is a social matter and unnecessary. Trees cure 

 famine. 



Within the past decade a number of thinkers on one end of the see- 

 saw have written heavily on the over-population question not knowing 

 that they and their birth control ideas were to be tossed into the air 

 by still heavier weight of fact on the other end of the see-saw. 



The heavier weight of fact relates to the idea that famine does not 

 belong to tree food regions. It relates to the fact that tree foods can 

 supply all of the essentials of provender for men, livestock and fowls ; 

 proteins, starches', fats and vitamines in delicious form. It relates to 

 the fact that tree foods come largely out of the sub-soil without appar- 

 ent diminution of fertility of the ground. The tree allows top-soil 

 bacteria and surface annual plants to manufacture plant food materials 



