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Tree Crops:

A Permanent Agriculture

ISBN-13: 9780933280441
Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
By Smith
Price: AUD $147.00
Stock: 0 in stock
Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
Local release date: 13/02/1988
Format: Paperback 497 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Technology: general issues [TB]

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Table of Contents
Google Preview: A complete reference for growing high-yield fruit- and nut-bearing trees.; Acknowledgments
Foreword: How to Read This Book

Introduction: A Practical Visionary

PART I. The Philosophy
Chapter 1. How Long Can We Last?
Chapter 2. Tree Crops'The Way Out
Chapter 3. The Plan'An Institute of Mountain Agriculture

PART II. Some Facts about Some Crop Trees to Suggest Some of the Possibilities that Lie in This Proposed Work
Chapter 4. Some Stock-Food Trees'The Producers of Bran Substitutes
Chapter 5. A Stock-Food Tree, the Keawe, Or Hawaiian Algaroba
Chapter 6. A Stock-Food and Man-food Tree'The Carob
Chapter 7. A Stock-Food Tree'The Honey Locust
Chapter 8. A Group of Stock-Food Trees'The Mesquites
Chapter 9. The Real Sugar Tree
Chapter 10. A Summer Pasture Tree for Swine and Poultry'The Mulberry
Chapter 11. The Persimmon: A Pasture Tree for the Beasts and a Kingly Fruit for Man
Chapter 12. A Corn Tree'The Chestnut
Chapter 13. A Corn Tree'The Oak as a Forage Crop
Chapter 14. Some Bread-and-Butter Trees'The Acorns as Human Food
Chapter 15. Nuts as Human Food
Chapter 16. A Meat-and-Butter Tree for Man'The Persian Walnut
Chapter 17. Another Meat-and-Butter Tree'The Eastern Black Walnut
Chapter 18. A Group Of Meat-and-Butter Trees'The Other Walnuts
Chapter 19. The Pecan'King of Hickories'A Type Study in Tree Crops
Chapter 20. More Meat-and-Butter Tree'The Other Hickories
Chapter 21. Some Suggested Lines of Work'The Unexplored Realm
Chapter 22. A Peep at the Tropics

PART III. Economics, Farm Applications, and National Applications
Chapter 23. Tree Crops and Farm Management
Chapter 24. Plan or Perish'Tree Crops'The Nation and the Race'A New Patriotism Is Needed

PART IV. Who Will Do the Basic Scientific Work Which This Book Calls For?
Chapter 25. Who Is Working Now?
Chapter 26. The Great Hope and the Many Little Hopes

Appendix A: Analysis of Feeds for Farm Animals
Appendix B: Food Value of the Persimmon and Other Fruits
Appendix C: Average Composition of Nuts and Other Foods
Appendix D: Food Values of Crop and Livestock Products per Acre
Index; Google Preview content