TREE CROPS: a Permanent Agriculture 
by J. RUSSELL SMITH 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
How Long Can We Last? 
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2. Tree Crops—The Way Out 
3. The Plan—An Institute of Mountain Agriculture 
4. Some Stock-food Trees—The Producers of Bran Substitutes 
5. A Stock-food Tree, the Keawe, or Hawaiian Algaroba 
6. A Stock-food and Man-food Tree—The Carob 
7. A Stock-food Tree—The Honey Locust 
8. A Group of Stock-food Trees—The Mesquites 
9. The Real Sugar Tree 
10. 
A Summer Pasture Tree for Swine and Poultry—The Mulberry 
11. The Persimmon: A Pasture Tree for the Beasts and a Kingly Tree for Man 
12. A Corn Tree—The Chestnut 
13. A Corn Tree—The Oak as a Forage Crop 
14. Some Bread-and-Butter Trees—the Acorns as Human Food 
15. Nuts as Human Food 
16. A Meat-and-Butter Tree for Man—The Persian Walnut 
17. Another Meat-and-Butter Tree—The Eastern Black Walnut 
18. A Group of Meat-and-Butter Trees—the Other Walnuts 
19. The Pecan—King of Hickories—a Type study in Tree Crops 
20. More Meat-and-Butter Trees—the Other Hickories 
21. Some Suggested Lines of Work—the Unexplored Realm 
22. A Peep at the Tropics 
23. Tree Crops and Farm Management 
24. Plan or Perish—Tree Crops—the Nation and the Race—A New 
Patriotism is Needed 
25. Who is Working Now? 
26. The Great Hope and the Many Little Hopes 
Appendices 
Index 
For: Naturalists, or any who love nature 
Students, or any who want to know 
Farmers, or any who love the land 
Home Owners, or any who love America 
Any World Citizen, or all those who think 
Louis Bromfield says: “One of the most important books of our time.” 
Bernard Baruch says: “Makes one think deeplv . . . any one with a lot large 
enough to plant a tree should read this book.” 
