Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-07-16
TWO.STWKY FARMING.

the South that might be made ex- tremely profitable is the growing of oceans. Pork fatted on oceans might become as famous as the hams of Andalusia, in Spain, whert pigs are fattened on chestnuts and the hams bring enormous prices be- cause of their flavor. In this part of the South the pecan tree growers and produces we'll and its presence uoas not interfere with tine raising of other crops. A writer in the Christian Science Monitor comments on two story farming" as he calls the rais ing of nuts and certain fruits:
 As the education of the South in diversified agriculture proceeds it turns to what contributor to tie July Century magazine calls two story farming" That is to say while nature is being constrained by varI- ous human devices to grow certain crops on the level of the ground or beneaGh it, she also will be encourag- ed, as in southern Europe, to do her equally fruitful work ol the higher level. While cereals and legumes are growing below, walnuts, oceans, olives and other such admirable fruits can be growing above, harvest ing of the one tier not conflicting with the other, and the dual source of income from his land not only en- riching the tiller of tine soil if both crops are good but saving him from penury if one of them chances to fail for any reason, seen or unseen As for gathering the nut crop it need not be left to men. In part or in whole it can be reckoned as mast" and left to porcine collectors which when attended can be sold at much profit. Indeed the combination of the pecan and the pastured pig" already has worked wonders, pecuniary and agricultural, in southern regions of the country where tried. Under this scheme, as the writer of this Gen. tury article says, the pig ceases to be a star boarder" and becomes a farm worker as well as quick asset" Moreover nuts and pork sounds more appetizing than some other com binations.
 Once the process of education is we'll under way which the depart ment of agriculture and some ot the state agricultural colleges are pro- noting, and this double-decker system of farming, whith man and pig as co-partners, will spread north as we'll q COnfh y,o 0f temperate zone include many prolific fruit bearers, the nuts of which are salable either for their meat or their oil, and if treated as mast then are fine as food for swine. Each year is likely to See increasing, deliberate expansion of this form of crop by farmers who hitherto have undervalu- ed trees save for their timber. Once it is seen that a trees fruit may be a perpetual source of income, while its trunk and branches if sawn into lumber or burned On the hearth can have but one value, that of capital destroyed in the using, then there will be a timber er-conservation move ment that will be worth watching.
 Thus far those who have raised oceans in large quantities in the South have been able to market them without the trouble of first turning them into pork and at highe: price than any pork brings in this country Pigs that have the run of Harvested l corn fields, sweet potato fields and lots where pecan trees grow should class high as pork producers, and il is plain that the price of pork is steadily rising with the price of other meats.