Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-07-10
ANTI-PovERTY RECIPES.
Enoctivo Remedies Against tho ChIcH
Peril OF Ovor.POpulatlon.


About five hundred miles southwes
OF Nanking tho Yangtsckiane river i:
joined by tributary that drains tho
lowland province of Kiangtse, and tho
lower 10000 square miles of the alluvia
delta form probably tho most dcnsely
populated region Of tho modern world,
writes DIR. Felix L. Oswald in tho North
American Review, Every square rod OF
tillablc ground is cultivated en- tho
most approved truck-farm plan; the
very rocks of tho upland hills arc util.
lied by grape-gardcncrs; and cattle
pastures have long ago made room for
nsh-ponds. Prof. kcrstcn, of Vienna,
demonstrates that by systematic pisci-
culture animal food can be produced
eight times 4" choaply as by any method
OF stock raising; but that estimate rcfcra
only to the conventional systems OF
Southern Europe. whereas. by adopting
tho Chinese C2pcdicnts for providing
vegetable !iShfood, ponds, aero for acre,
could De mado about fifteen times moro
profitable than tho best pastures.
Chemistry, too, has devised vari-
Gus methods for chcapening tho
ingredients Of our food by arti-
fetal equivalents; but the most effective
remedy against the chief peril o: over
population is. after all, tho Corsican plan
OF substituting perennial for annual food
plants Sugar, flour and fat form tho
most important Clcr1o nt3 Of our diet,
and oven in tho colder lGtitudcs Of tho
temperate zono those clements could DO
derived from tho products of arborcal
vegetation. Bccchnuts yield an Oil al
Eaoat equal to olive oil; walnuts and ha-
z"lnuts can DO used for tho samc pur-
rosc, and by careful cultivation could DO
Eiadc productive enough to supply I'll
tho Calorohc clements of food needed
even by northland population. In tho
Mediterranean coastland3 olive trees be-
TN to bear about tho seventh year, but
far outlivc their planters; SO much SO,
indeed, that some Sicilian specimens of
ito Oel Ei"2pG0 arc believed to be older
tan the period of our chronological
era. After thc twentieth ycdr o!ivo
trees planted in = congcni2l soil become
enormously productive. At least five OF
the twenty odd different varieties could
lie successfully cultivated as far north
as Tennessee, and tho California planta-
Tors alone will supply all tho markets
Of North America. Italy, in spite OF
her diGconraging tax on I'LL orchard
tees, still produces nearly $1,000. OJ0
gallons year. Besides tho olive. tho
forests of tho lower attitudes Droduco
hundreds OF different oil-yiclding
trees. OF palms alone Prof. Burr1cistcr
CnnmCratcs thirty-Evo species, ao.1o Of
them productive enough to make animal
f>;;3 almost auTCrfuouG. Sugar also
could be derived from tree products in
an abundance that would make tho
manufacture Of glucose cease to form q
rtoit&bl" branch Of industry. Maple
sirup caa b. ro!inoI in a way To modify
t." acid taste OF it's sugar: palm trees
ard several species CT c0niGcr3 yield q
hor"y-lil:N .ap; moro Than fifty different
Kinds OF o'nh"rl fruits abound in sac
c;arl:;c Vlc2@"2tG: and Il small, rou2dish
variety Of ~" l.rcci2n sugar. lu,a yields
thirty Per cent. moro sugar per Gallon
OF lNlC" t. II inc pcsG Du.yar.caMc. In
Jnn n!rJGCliDG OF carina3Gous fuoI-StufIs
Cur .g"&ii-p !,.Etiri would find il equally
ir:po. %.1lD 10 compete with tho cult
VT 10 OF v@"i0n3 species Of arborcal
IlrntS. According to uunboll and
IrArI3Nd'3 ri;ilAAt2, an arcn OF land
T.. .@uc.3'; {, hundred pounds Of potatoes
VII IiC.a :.Ioro than four Thousand
loHHdH Of h@nanGs, and o ban2aa
orchard Cf three acres can DO lnadc 10
support t,.'.!~v-.:vc rlca. All through
southern Lr"N3" and southwestern Asia
c"rCaE ~" largely superseded by tho
6. S'..Hc.: ,tS".'. CT lt&lian chr5tnut boar
i..'E = ~ :jo:-:"wh2t lar:cr than q iilbcrt
auA - ~ :.n,ritionG than any known
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