Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-04-04

herders feed their dogs on oil porridge,
and the refuse of tree-oil has been
mixed with sawdust, ETC.. for the man
ufacture of cheap fuel, much superb
or TO peat.
And olive oil could be made abund-
ant enough TO reduce our food and fuel
bills one-half
On the same area of terrace lands
that would furnish ten pounds of fat
through the medium of mich cows, 200
pounds of fat could be raised through
the medium of olive trees. Prof. Pa
Sano of Turin, estimates the proper
ton as 80 to l. and in arid uplands as
90 to j; but let us assume the safe
minimum of a twenty-fold product.
Twenty pounds of olive oil raised with
ease in hill countries where the most
skillful dairy manager could raise only
one pound of butter
Mich COWS go dry in many parts of
southern Europe where olive groves
flourish, and olive culture would prove
enormously profitable in the uplands
of our great southwest. In Texas, Ar
ern New Mexico. In our sister repub-
lie the extant number of olive trees
could be probabaly multiplied a thou
sand-fold.
1t has been successfully tried in half
hundred old Spanish missions, and
the only explanation of it's subsequent
neglect can be found in the circum-
CT hot ri
not yield hand-to-mouth CROP like a
potato patch or a bean field.
The tree is somewhat slow grower
and for five years is apt to increase
only in thickness, like an old cactus
stump; but then, if rains do not fail,
will gather itself up and shoot out
branches in all directions, and yield
crop after crop with steadily increas-
ing liberality.
Nay, moreover, the bought grievance
is liable to get remedied where large
number of olive trees have once con-
trived to take root. The French found
thai out in Algeria, after planting the
hillsides of an experimental farm with
imports from southern Italy They
planted carob trees est. Johns
Bread'), too, by hundreds of thousand,
and the third year rainfalls began to
increase and soon became abundant
enough to make sprinkling superfiu-
GUS Other species of trees also then
consented to grow, and the neighbor-
hood (the district of Sidi Belief is
now about as productive as southern
Spain. 1t has become a vega, wide,
waving sea of arboreal vegetation, Civ
ing hint of what the north African
coast lands may have been at the time
of the Roman empire.
And who knows if our great west
has not likewise been blighted by the
tree distinctions of prehistoric race,
and if vast areas of it's south regions
might not be reclaimed without the
trouble of irrigation?
The experience of Denver county,
thai tree plantations will increase the
yearly rainfall even at thousand
miles distance from the next seacoast,
and the olive exceeds many other
trees in its capacity for pioneer work
in the lower ATTITUDES. 1t and the
acacia will strike root where the at
mospheric conditions resemble those of
Kansas Sabbath, and, after the lapse
of few years, pear trees and apple
trees will waive their objections.
Hard times would henceforth cease
in that land of redemption; yes, and
Dy and by would mend wherever the
olive planters could market their ex-
ports. OF over-produce their would lie
no risk, for centuries to come. Sicilian
oil gardeners sell their premium sam
piles for five cents a pound. and at that
price no North American housekeeper
would refuse an import of something
better than butter.
Millions of square miles could be
proftably reclaimed. In its total eco
nonic value to the human race the in
ternational culture of the olive tree
couif almost be made to equal the dis.
covery of America.
Copyright. 1905. by Joseph B. Bow!es.)