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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



A TAPANESE WALNUT WITH BUTTERNUT 

 PROGENY AT THE HOME OF A. CARMI 

 BETTS, 74 NEWTOWN AVENUE, NORWALK, 

 CONNCTICUT. 



at the Sanitarium and by experiments 

 on wild animals that nuts are not dif- 

 ficult to digest but are on the contrary 

 beneficial when taken at the proper 

 time and in the proper manner- He 

 has experimented on a large number 

 of wild animals and has found that 

 nearly all readily accept nuts instead of 



meat. There was one exception. The 

 bald-headed eagle refused the substi- 

 tute. All others, even a wolf that had 

 had nothing to eat except raw meat 

 since it had been taken from the mother 

 readily changed to a diet of nuts. He 

 told an interesting experience with this 

 wolf in that it escaped from the cage 

 captured two chickens, devoured them 

 greedily and died within a few hours 

 It appears that after the wolf had be- 

 come accustomed to the nuts, the shock 

 of the meat diet was too great, provided 

 we are justified in attributing the wolf's 

 death to the chickens. 



Another pleasing address was by 

 Editor Collingwood of "The Rural 

 New-Yorker." As a humorist, and in 

 his ability to illustrate his remarks by 

 anecdotes, this genial editor would take 

 first premium for skill in pleasing and 

 instructing a general audience. His 

 stories of his boyhood experiences, es- 

 pecially with puzzling problems in 

 arithmetic, not only entertained the 

 audience but served as admirable texts 

 on which to suspend his dissertations 

 on nuts which came later in the address. 



Mr. F. A. Bartlett of Stamford pre- 

 sented a practical paper on the use of 

 nut trees for shade. He maintained 

 that nut trees not onlv have the advan- 



THE NUT GROWERS AT A BUTTERNUT OFFSPRING OF THE TAPANESE WALNUT. 



